Tunisia says it has killed top suspect for Bardo Museum attack
- 9 years ago
Tunisia says its security forces have killed senior Algerian militant Khaled Chaib, also known as Lokman Abou Sakhr, who authorities accuse of helping orchestrate this month’s Bardo Museum massacre.
The attack on the Bardo national museum in Tunis killed 21 foreign tourists and a policeman, shaking a country praised as a peaceful democratic model since leading the first Arab Spring uprising in 2011.
The announcement of the security forces raid was made just ahead of Sunday’s anti-terror march in Tunis.
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said the militant was killed late on Saturday, along with eight other Islamist fighters from the
Okba Ibn Nafaa group, in Tunisia’s centre-west region of Gafsa.
Essid said: “We have eliminated this brigade which was involved in the terrorist attacks that Tunisia has recently witnessed.”
The group calling itself Islamic State claimed responsibility for the museum attack but Tunis has pointed the finger at Okba Ibn Nafaa, which operates along the m
The attack on the Bardo national museum in Tunis killed 21 foreign tourists and a policeman, shaking a country praised as a peaceful democratic model since leading the first Arab Spring uprising in 2011.
The announcement of the security forces raid was made just ahead of Sunday’s anti-terror march in Tunis.
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said the militant was killed late on Saturday, along with eight other Islamist fighters from the
Okba Ibn Nafaa group, in Tunisia’s centre-west region of Gafsa.
Essid said: “We have eliminated this brigade which was involved in the terrorist attacks that Tunisia has recently witnessed.”
The group calling itself Islamic State claimed responsibility for the museum attack but Tunis has pointed the finger at Okba Ibn Nafaa, which operates along the m