sexta-feira, março 18, 2022

Foi há sete anos que um ataque terrorista, na Tunísia, matou 22 pessoas

Mosaic memorial at the Bardo Museum to the victims of the attack
    
On 18 March 2015, three militants attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis, and took hostages. Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, and an additional victim died ten days later. Around fifty others were injured. Two of the gunmen, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed by police, and the third attacker is currently at large. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, and threatened to commit further attacks. However, the Tunisian government blamed a local splinter group of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, called the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, for the attack. A police raid killed nine members ten days later.

 

Deaths by nationality
Country Number
 France 4
 Italy 4
 Japan 3
 Poland 3
 Colombia 2
 Spain 2
 Tunisia 1
 Belgium 1
 Russia 1
 United Kingdom 1
Total 22

  

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