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| Tunisian police kill militant amid political crisis |
| 2013-08-05 |
| Tunisian police shot dead a militant in Tunis and arrested several suspected militants on Sunday, an official and witnesses said, as the government grapples with growing security and political crises. Interior ministry official Lotfi Hidouri said the shooting on Sunday took place when police raided a house where militants were hiding weapons in the Kabaria district of Tunis. “The police killed a terrorist and arrested five others,” he said. Witnesses said police also arrested several hardline Salafists suspected of ties with militant groups, in the town of Sbitla, north of the capital. One witness said dozens of Salafists then gathered at the police headquarters in Sbitla to protest against the arrests and that the police fired in the air to disperse them. Over the past week, a roadside explosive device and a car bomb have targeted security forces in Tunis, the first such attacks to hit the capital. No one was hurt. |
| Posted by:Steve White |