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Tunisians protested on Jan. 20 to demand the release of hundreds of young demonstrators arrested in several nights of disturbances, venting their anger also against the government's handling of a deepening social crisis.

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to Libya Oliver Potezica died in hospital in Sousse, Tunisia, on Wednesday morning, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has confirmed to Tanjug.

Ambassador Potezica succumbed to injuries sustained in a traffic accident in Tunisia on Tuesday.

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Tunisia said on Feb. 4 it is lifting a nationwide nighttime curfew imposed last month after the worst social unrest witnessed in the country since its 2011 revolution.

Tunisia expects to lose at least $515 million this year, or about a quarter of its estimated annual tourism earnings, following the June 26 attack on a beach hotel that killed 39 people, mostly British holidaymakers. 

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov condemned the three terrorist attacks, which took place in France, Tunisia and Kuwait on Friday.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the three attacks, which threatened the values of peace, democracy and freedom and expressed solidarity with the peoples of the three countries.

A terrorist attack took place in Sousse, Tunisia, at a beach near a tourist resort, earlier today.

According to the Tunisian Ministry of Interior, the number of dead has reached 27 and is expected to rise.

At least 27 people were killed and several injured as gunmen targeted a tourist hotel near the Tunisian resort city of Sousse on Friday.

The interior ministry informed that a "terrorist attack" was ongoing, with at least one gunman shot dead and another being pursued by security forces, the BBC reports.

Serbian Ambassador to Tunisia Nikola Lukic says no Serbian tourists were staying at the Imperial Marhaba hotel near the site of a terrorist attack on Friday.

According to the BBC, which quoted the Tunisian Interior Ministry, at least 27 people, including foreigners, died in the attack on a beach near two hotels in the resort town of Sousse.