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
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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