Bardo National Museum attack
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On 18 March 2015, two militants attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis, and took hostages.[6] Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, and an additional victim died ten days later. Around fifty others were injured.[7][8][9] The two gunmen, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed by police.[5] Police treated the event as a terrorist attack.[10][11]
Bardo National Museum attack | |
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Location | Tunis, Tunisia |
Date | 18 March 2015 12:30 CET[2] |
Target | Parliament of Tunisia Bardo National Museum |
Attack type | Mass shooting, hostage taking |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 24 (including 2 perpetrators) |
Injured | 42[4] |
Perpetrators | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Algeria Province[4] |
Assailants | Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui (both killed) Unidentified third suspect (at large)[5] |
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, and threatened to commit further attacks.[12] However, the Tunisian government blamed a local splinter group of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, called the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, for the attack. A police raid killed nine members ten days later.[13]