Suicide bombers strike US embassy in Tunis, cop dead

Tunis, March 6

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Suicide attackers struck outside the US embassy in the Tunisian capital on Friday, killing a police officer, wounding five other people and shaking a city repeatedly hit by jihadist violence.

The latest attack comes despite a state of emergency imposed in the North African nation in 2015 following a string of bloody assaults claimed by the Islamic State group. An explosion rocked the Berges du Lac district where the highly fortified embassy is located at around midday Friday, causing panic among pedestrians and motorists in the area.

“Two individuals targeted a security patrol… in the street leading to the American embassy,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. —AFP