Tunisia's Defense Ministry said Friday that an attack in which a soldier was stabbed to death in the northern city of Bizerte was "not a terrorist attack."
"Preliminary investigations showed that one of the slain soldier's colleagues in the same unit killed him over a longstanding personal dispute," ministry spokesman Belhasan al-Waslati said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, eyewitnesses had said that a Tunisian soldier had been stabbed to death by a "militant" who later fled the scene.
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