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Tunisia Gathers Extraordinary Committee to Discuss Hostages Situation

© AFP 2023 / FETHI BELAID Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015
Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid is holding the first meeting of an extraordinary committee on the the deadly militant attack in the Tunisian National Bardo Museum in the country's capital.

Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The government of Tunisia convened an extraordinary committee on Wednesday to address the deadly militant attack in the National Bardo Museum in the country’s capital of Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid told Sputnik.

Gunmen disguised as the military attacked the parliament building in Tunis, also housing the Bardo Museum, and took some tourists hostage earlier in the day. At least eight tourists were killed in the attack, a spokesman for the country's Interior Ministry, Ali Muhammad Urui, told Sputnik

Habib Essid, who was appointed head of the extraordinary committee, told Sputnik that the first meeting of the committee was currently under way.

President Beji Caid Essebsi is expected to address the nation later on Wednesday.

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