Tunisia says its security forces have killed senior Algerian militant Khaled Chaib, also known as Lokman Abou Sakhr, who authorities accuse of helping orchestrate this month’s Bardo Museum massacre.<br /><br />The attack on the Bardo national museum in Tunis killed 21 foreign tourists and a policeman, shaking a country praised as a peaceful democratic model since leading the first Arab Spring uprising in 2011.<br /><br />The announcement of the security forces raid was made just ahead of Sunday’s anti-terror march in Tunis.<br /><br />Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said the militant was killed late on Saturday, along with eight other Islamist fighters from the <br />Okba Ibn Nafaa group, in Tunisia’s centre-west region of Gafsa.<br /><br />Essid said: “We have eliminated this brigade which was involved in the terrorist attacks that Tunisia has recently witnessed.”<br /><br />The group calling itself Islamic State claimed responsibility for the museum attack but Tunis has pointed the finger at Okba Ibn Nafaa, which operates along the m
