Nine People Wounded In Tunis Female Suicide Bomb Attack

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A picture taken on October 29, 2018, shows Tunisian police gathering at the site of a suicide attack in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis. - A woman blew herself up near police vehicles in the centre of the Tunisian capital, injuring nine people, the interior ministry said. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP) (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

Tunis (October 29, 2018): A woman suicide bomber blew herself near police vehicles in the centre of the Tunisian capital, injuring nine people on Monday.

A suicide bombing has rocked the main avenue in central Tunis, injuring at least nine people.The powerful explosion, detonated by a 30-year-old female bomber, targeted a group of police officers on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in the Tunisian capital.According to the Tunisian interior ministry reports, the attack took place just before 2 pm when the woman approached a group of officers and set off her device. An interior ministry spokesman said all but one of the casualties were police. Injured were transferred to Hospital Charles Nicolle in Tunis and the military hospital.