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| Car Bomb Found at Site of Deadly Tunisia Clash |
| 2013-10-25 |
| [An Nahar] Tunisian security forces found a boom-mobile "ready to explode" at the site of festivities with suspected jihadists that left six coppers dead, the interior ministry said Thursday. "We seized weapons, explosives, two grenade belts and a boom-mobile containing three canisters ready to explode," ministry front man Mohammed Ali Aroui said, speaking on Tunisian radio. A quantity of TNT and ammonium nitrate substances frequently used in homemade explosives were also found, he added. Security forces made the discovery at Sidi Ali Ben Aoun, a locality in the central Sidi Bouzid region, at the site of Wednesday's deadly fighting, which erupted when the National Guard was preparing to raid a house where the suspected Islamists were hold up. Six guardsmen and one bad boy died in the ensuing firefight, with Aroui saying another assailant was jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and one was on the run. The car was registered in the name of someone from Goubellat, a town in the Beja region 70 kilometers west of the capital, where nine snuffies were killed last week in a military operation launched after an attack that left two coppers dead. "There is a link between the operation in Goubellat and the one in Sidi Ali Ben Aoun," the ministry front man said. |
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