Bardo National Museum attack

Tunisia said two gunmen who killed 21 people at its national museum trained at a militant camp in Libya, as the country marked its Independence Day in sombre fashion on March 20.
      

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for an attack on foreign tourists at Tunisia's national museum that killed 21 people, as the security forces swooped on suspects.
      

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for for the deadly attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia's capital.

23 people were killed in Wednesday's attack, including 18 foreign tourists, five Tunisians and two gunmen, according to an announcement of Health Minister Said Aidi.

In a statement issued today, the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the terror attack on Tunisia’s national museum, which caused the death of 23 people on Wednesday.

Nine people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with Wednesday's terror attack in the country's capital, Fox News has reported.

Four of those arrested are suspected of being directly related to the attack, according to a statement released by Tunisia's presidential office on Thursday. The other five were arrested "under strong suspicion of relation" to the shooting.

Nine people suspected of links with the gunmen who attacked a Tunis museum leaving 21 dead have been arrested, the presidency announced March 19.
      
"Security forces were able to arrest four people directly linked to the (terrorist) operation and five suspected of having ties to the cell," it said in a statement, without giving details.
      

Twenty-two people were killed and about 17 wounded in the shooting at the Bardo national museum in Tunisia's capital on Wednesday, the Bulgarian ambassador to the North African country has said.

There are no indications of Bulgarian nationals having been killed or wounded in the attack, Ambassador Mihail Nikolovski told Nova TV station.

Tunisian police have killed two gunmen who stormed the Bardo national museum in Tunisia's capital on Wednesday, bringing to an end a three-hour hostage crisis.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid has said at least 19 people were killed in the shooting including 17 foreign tourists, Reuters reported. A Tunisian citizen and a policeman also died in the attack, according to Essid.

At least 21 people were killed when militants attacked Tunisia's Bardo museum in the capital Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid said on March 18.

The death toll includes 17 foreign tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain, as well as two gunmen, a Tunisian security officer and a Tunisian cleaning woman.

Essid said two or three of the attackers remained at large.

At least eight people have been killed in a shooting at a Tunisian museum where a hostage situation is believed to be underway.

According to reports of Radio Mosaique, three men dressed in military-style clothing have seized hostages at Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis, which is adjacent to the national parliament building.