DOUBLE TERRORIST ATTACK  IN TUNIS

Two suicide attacks were perpetrated on Thursday, June 27 at midday in Tunis.

A car was the target of an attack on Thursday afternoon on Avenue Bourguiba, the main artery of Tunis. The kamikaze targeted the police, said a police officer on the spot. According to the authorities, three policemen and two civilians were injured.

Body pieces littered the roadway around a police car on Bourguiba Avenue, the capital's main avenue, near the old town.

A little later, it was reported that a second attack targeted a barracks of the National Guard, in the neighborhood of Al Karjani four wounded.

At the end of October, Tunis had already been hit by a suicide bombing.

Already on the avenue Bourguiba, an artery very popular with passers-by and tourists.

A woman in her thirties had activated an explosive charge that she was transporting, approaching again this time a group of police officers. Twenty people were injured, including five civilians.

Tunisia, which relies heavily on tourism, has raised its security measures since a series of attacks in 2015, including the attack on the museum of Bardo where 21 people were killed, and in the resort of Sousse, which killed 38 people.