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Tunis museum attacks: police hunt third suspect in shootings | |
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Tunisia’s president says a third gunman was involved in last week’s attack on the Bardot museum that left 23 dead, as CCTV footage was released showing the gunmen stalking victims in the museum. | |
Beji Caid Essebsi said in an interview with French television that the attacker, as yet unnamed, was “on the run”. | |
A manhunt is in progress, with police patrols in Tunis stopping people to check identities. The mood is calm, the capital’s streets bedecked with red and white Tunisian flags after muted independence day celebrations on Friday. | |
Authorities have released a photograph of the man they say helped travel agent Yassin Labidi, 20, and accomplice Saber Khachnaou, 26, carry out the attack that left 23 dead, including 19 foreigners. | |
The interior ministry released CCTV footage showing the gunmen inside the museum, which is adjacent to Tunisia’s parliament, stalking its halls for victims. | |
The minute-long video shows the men, holding machine guns, moving around the marble halls, showing no sign of tension, minutes after they opened fire on tourist buses outside the museum entrance. | |
The men, one in a red hat and tracksuit bottoms, the other with a baseball cap and jacket, are seen bumping into a third man with a backpack walking down the stairs. After acknowledging him, the gunmen allow him to walk free. It is unclear if this is a lucky escape, or evidence of the third suspect that police are hunting. | |
Police had announced the arrest of 20 people suspected of helping the gunmen, who, they said on Friday, had been trained at terrorist camps in neighbouring Libya. | |
Meanwhile, the task of identifying and repatriating the bodies of 19 foreign tourists continues. The bodies of four Italians were returning to Italy on Sunday. The bodies of 14 foreigners remain in the morgue, with the victims including citizens from Britain, Colombia, France, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain. Three Tunisians died in the attack, in which the gunmen opened fire on tourist buses before blasting their way into the museum, killing and wounding dozens more. |