Earlier on Monday, heavy fighting broke out between Tunisian forces and a group of militants who attacked police and army posts in Ben Guerdane.
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“Four people died after synchronized attacks by armed terrorists against security and the national guard sectors and the army barrack in Ben Gardane”, the ministry stated.
Troops have been on alert in the border area following reports that militants had been slipping across since a USA air strike on an Islamic State group training camp in Libya on February 18 killed dozens of Tunisian militants.
The Tunisian Interior Ministry announced Monday, in a statement, an assurance that the situation in Bel Guerdane was “under control”.
Last Wednesday, troops killed five militants in a firefight outside the town in which a civilian was also killed and a commander wounded. Three civilians and two soldiers were also killed in the attack. “They said they were Islamic State, and they came to target the army and the police”.
Deadly attacks by ISIS on foreign holidaymakers past year, which dealt a devastating blow to Tunisia’s tourism industry, are believed to have been planned from Libya. He says security forces killed a large number of assailants.
Hospital official Abdelkrim Chafroud said a 12-year-old was among the dead civilians, and two security agents were also killed.
Protests over scarce jobs and an ineffective government also drove similar unrest five years ago and spurred authoritarian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to flee in January 2011, making Tunisia the first of what would become several nations in the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East where popular uprisings led to the ouster of longtime leaders.
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