TUNIS: Two suicide blasts have rocked the Tunisian capital, killing at least one police officer and wounding eight others.
The first explosion on Thursday involved a suicide bomber who targeted a police patrol on Tunis’ central Charles de Gaulle street, not far from the French embassy.
One police officer was killed, while another was wounded, according to the interior ministry. Three civilians were also wounded.
Body parts were strewn on the road around the police car, the international media reported.
A loud explosion was heard throughout the surrounding neighborhood.
A second attacker blew himself up shortly afterwards on a base of the national guard in the capital’s al-Qarjani district, the interior ministry said. Four security personnel were wounded in that attack.
No immediate claim of responsibility was made for either blast.
