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Tunisia’s leader says the hunt is on for a third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum. A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum is on the run, Tunisia’s president said Sunday, declaring his country at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa’s most revered cultural institutions.
President Beji Caid Essebsi said the assault involved “three aggressors”, one of whom escaped. President Beji Caid Essebsi said the attack involved “three aggressors” and the third man escaped. He was speaking live with French network iTele from inside the museum, its elaborate tilework visible behind him.
Essebsi spoke on Sunday to French TV network iTele from inside the Bardo, where gunmen killed 21 people – mostly foreign tourists – before two Tunisian attackers died in a shootout with security forces. Tunisia’s interior ministry released security camera footage of Wednesday’s attack showing two gunmen walking through the museum, carrying assault rifles and bags. At one point they encounter a third man with a backpack walking down a flight of stairs. They briefly acknowledge each other before walking in opposite directions.
Tunisia’s interior ministry released security camera footage of Wednesday’s attack showing two gunmen walking through the museum carrying assault rifles and bags. Police responding to the attack shot and killed the two gunmen. They were identified as Tunisians in their 20s who had trained in Libya.
At one point they encounter another man with a backpack walking down a flight of stairs. They briefly acknowledge each other before walking in opposite directions. Essebsi said the extremists who have recruited about 3,000 Tunisians to fight in Iraq and Syria have no credible connection to Islamic belief. He said his country was at war with them.
“When war is brought upon us, we will wage war,” he said.