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Islamic Militants Use Vehicle, Knives in Deadly Terror Attack

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Tunisian authorities say that they have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in a deadly weekend attack that left one security officer dead and another wounded.

The attack occurred on Sunday in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse when the perpetrators rammed their vehicle into security officers and attacked them with knives.

National Guard spokesman Housameddine Jbabli said Monday that seven suspects are being held by anti-terrorism authorities.

The Islamic State group’s Amaq agency claimed responsibility on Monday for the attack. It was unclear whether or not the claim was opportunistic.

However, on Sunday, the spokesman for Tunisia’s judicial arm of the counter-terrorism fight said the attackers were dressed in Islamic State colors bearing slogans glorifying the terror organization.

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On Sunday, Tunisian forces fatally shot three alleged attackers.

Among the seven detained is the wife of one of the dead attackers and the two brothers of another.

Jbabli said that a preliminary investigation showed that the attackers had developed online links with foreign networks to learn how to make explosives.

Sousse was the site of Tunisia’s deadliest Islamist attack in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists.


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