Tunisia Kills 8 Militants İn Gafsa

Tunisian police have killed eight militants in the southern province of Gafsa, including one likely to be the suspected chief architect of a recent deadly attack on Tunis' Bardo Museum, a security source said Sunday.



"Acting upon intelligence, the security agencies ambushed a terrorist group in Sidi Aich district in Gafsa and managed to kill eight terrorists," the source, requesting anonymity, told The Anadolu Agency.



According to the source, one of the slain militants was likely Algerian militant leader Khaled al-Shayeb, also known as Luqman Abu Sakhr, who is suspected to be the chief architect of the attack on Bardo Museum earlier this month.



Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli said last week that that al-Shayeb and  Uqba Ibn Nafi Brigades militant group was behind the shooting rampage in Tunis' Bardo museum, which left 23 people – mostly foreign tourists – dead.



Tourists from Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain were among those killed in the attack.



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