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Female suicide bomber blows herself up, sparking panic, terror in Tunisian capital
2018-10-30
[RT] A woman has blown herself up in an apparent terrorist attack in Tunisia’s capital, reportedly injuring eight coppers. People were seen running for their lives after the bomb went kaboom! on a busy street.

The kaboom took place on Habib Bourguiba avenue, central Tunis, near the city’s Municipal Theater.

Witness Mohammed Ekbal bin Rajib told Rooters that he was "in front of the theater and heard a huge kaboom and saw people fleeing."

Several ambulances and police attended the scene, as videos uploaded to social media show officials examining the body of the woman and trying control panicked crowds.

Interior Ministry front man Sufian al-Zaq has confirmed that eight police and one citizen have been injured in the kaboom, Local Arabic newspaper Al Chourouk reports. The bombing took place next to a police van and near a hotel.

What is usually one of the busiest streets in the capital were shut down following the kaboom. According to state news agency TAP, who cited the Tunisian Interior Ministry, the bomber had no known Death Eater background.
Al Ahram adds:
A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Monday, wounding 15 people including 10 coppers in what the Interior Ministry called a "terrorist kaboom".

The bomber had no previously known bully boy background, the interior ministry said.

Local media said the woman, named "Mouna", had a university degree in English and was from the coastal governorate of Mahdia.

There were no tourists among the injured, a security source said.
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