[1]Police reinforcements in Sousse after gunmen killed 28 people, mostly tourists, on a beach. Photo credit: Saber ben Hasen. Shared on Twitter by @subaruplus [1]
At least 28 people, mostly foreign tourists, have been killed when gunmen opened fire on a beach in the resort town of Sousse, located 140 kilometers southern the capital Tunis.
Ministry of tourism : #Tunisia [2] #SousseAttack [3] 27 dead and 18 wounded are mostly from #germany [4] #Belgium [5] #UnitedKingdom [6] #russia [7]
— Zied Mhirsi (@zizoo) June 26, 2015 [8]
Police killed one of the gunmen, while local media reported the arrest of another suspect.
#BREAKING [9] #Sousse [10] #Tunisia [2] 2nd suspect in the terrorist attack has been arrested http://t.co/LJn2eKNn09 [11] pic.twitter.com/Ccc0hAbjKL [12]
— Tunisia Live (@Tunisia_Live) June 26, 2015 [13]
This is the second attack targeting foreign tourists in the span of less than four months, after militants killed 22 tourists and a police officer in an attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis on 18 March.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. But since 2012, Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, a militant group linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) staged a number of deadly attacks against police and armed forces. ISIS also claimed [15] its responsibility for the Bardo Museum attack in March.
This is a coordinated attack, possibly bearing the flag of #ISIS [16], in 3 countries, 3 continents: #France [17], #Kuwait [18] and #Tunisia [2] .
— Youssef Cherif (@Faiyla) June 26, 2015 [19]