Thirteen people were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus transporting Tunisia’s presidential guard in central Tunis on Tuesday.
The Islamic State took credit for the attack.
#ISIS/Daesh claims Tuesday's Tunis bus attack by suicide bomber Abu Abdallah al-Tunsi. 12 of Essebsi's guards killed pic.twitter.com/GfGNkophIo
— James Wheeler (@wheelertweets) November 25, 2015
In the past three weeks the ISIS jayvee team have executed “successful” attacks in Beirut, a Russian plane in the Sinai, Paris, and now Tunis.
The AP reported:
The latest on an explosion that targeted a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards in the capital, Tunis. All times local.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack in central Tunis carrying Tunisia’s presidential guards.
In a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday, the group says a militant it identified as Abu Abdullah al-Tunisi carried out the attack after infiltrating the bus and killing around 20 “apostates.”
The statement says the “tyrants of Tunis will not have peace and we will not rest until the law of God governs in Tunis.”
Tuesday’s explosion killed 13 people and the president declared a month-long state of emergency after the attack.
State of emergency and overnight curfew declared after Tunisia bus explosion #Tunis https://t.co/nGxg2bqel9 pic.twitter.com/doZsj4TXeU
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) November 24, 2015