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Tunisia arrests over 20 suspected militants following Bardo shootings

2015-03-21 1 Dailymotion

More than 20 suspected militants have been arrested in Tunisia, in the wake of the deadly shootings at the capital’s Bardo Museum.<br /><br /> Within the group are ten people believed to have been directly involved in the attack.<br /><br /> The assault by masked gunmen resulted in the deaths of 20 foreign tourists and three Tunisians.<br /><br /> ‘No place in Islam’<br /><br /> Leader of the country’s moderate Islamist Ennahda Party, Rachid Ghannouchi, strongly condemned the shootings.<br /><br /> “I was very sad and very angry about what happened (in) this terrorist act, which has no place in Islam and in our Tunisian heritage,” he declared.<br /><br /> Deadliest recent attack on foreigners<br /><br /> Meanwhile the bodies of the foreign victims are being flown home. In Rome, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi paid tribute to the four Italians who were killed in the shootings.<br /><br /> The Tunis attack was the deadliest involving foreigners in Tunisia since a suicide bombing in Djerba in 2002.<br /><br /> Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for the assault o

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