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| Suicide blast in Tunisian resort of Sousse |
| 2013-10-30 |
| [BBC.CO.UK] There has been a suicide kaboom in the Tunisian Mediterranean resort town of Sousse on a beach in front of a hotel, officials say. "That's 'Sou-SAY!'" A hotel employee told the BBC that the blast occurred at 09:45 local time (08:45 GMT) and that no-one was hurt except for the bomber. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack!Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things? Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No,he said. Do you?... security sources say police have foiled a separate plot to attack ex-President Habib Bourguiba's tomb. Police captured the would-be jacket wallah before he went kaboom!. Mr Bourguiba led Tunisia after independence from La Belle France; he was deposed in 1987 and died 13 years ago. Attack 'foiled' The blast in Sousse happened close to the Riadh Palms hotel, a receptionist told the BBC's World Update programme. The male attacker, wearing a belt of explosives, was killed, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoted Tunisia's Tap state news agency as saying. Witnesses said the bomber was spotted and chased away from the hotel, blowing himself up on an empty beach, the AFP news agency reported. Sousse is a tourist destination about 140km (87 miles) south of the capital, Tunis, on the Mediterranean coast. The former president's tomb is in Monastir, a town about 20km further south along the coast from Sousse. "An attempted attack targeting the compound of the Bourguiba mausoleum was foiled... and a young man carrying explosives was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! ," Interior Ministry front man Mohammed Ali Laroui told AFP. |
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