“I want to reassure the Tunisian people that we will vanquish terrorism”, he said.
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Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi, right, attends a funeral ceremony held at the Presidential Palace in Carthage near Tunis, Tunisia, to honour the members of the Republican Guard killed in Tuesday’s bomb blast on a bus, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015.
The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a deadly attack on a bus in central Tunis that was carrying Tunisia’s presidential guards.
Islamic State has claimed the bombing, the third major militant attack in Tunisia this year following assaults on a beach resort at Sousse and the Bardo museum in the capital, both of which targeted foreign visitors.
He was a native of a poor area known for ultraconservative Salafists in the province of Manouba near the capital Tunis, it said in a statement.
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No group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack.
Tunisian troops are engaged in an ongoing campaign against Islamist militants in their hideouts in the western highlands near the Algerian border.
The explosion, during rush hour in the city’s main avenue, was an attack, a presidential source said.
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid warned that his government would strictly enforce a curfew and anti-terrorism measures after 12 presidential guards were killed in a bombing.
The country’s president has declared a month-long nationwide state of emergency in light of the attack.
Reuters, citing unnamed government and security officials, said that the security officers had been boarding the bus at the time of the explosion and that the blast had probably been caused by a suicide bomber.
Hollande expressed his “full solidarity” with Tunisians, stressing that “France is more than ever standing by the side of Tunisia and its authorities and security forces in these painful moments”.
Unlike Libya and Syria, Tunisia has not fallen into civil war since the uprisings of 2011 overturned the regime of longtime ruler Zine Abidine Ben Ali.
The United States condemned the latest attack and offered to help Tunisia with its investigation.
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As reported by the online site Middle East Monitor, Ben Yunus told Quds Press that the attack was aimed at obstructing the democratic transition in Tunisia.
