TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police thwarted an attack deliberate by a girl coming from Syria, the place she obtained coaching “with terrorist teams,” targeting tourist areas within the nation, the inside ministry mentioned on Friday.
It added that the girl, who was planning assaults with an explosive belt, was imprisoned.
The ministry mentioned the girl returned to Tunisia from Syria by way of Turkey on Jan. 10 after spending a yr of coaching in Syria, the place she deliberate the attack.
Tunisian safety forces have thwarted most militant plots lately they usually have turn into extra environment friendly at responding to these assaults that do happen, Western diplomats say.
In November police shot and wounded an extremist who sought to attack them with a knife and cleaver within the capital.
The final main assaults in Tunisia passed off in 2015 when militants killed scores of individuals in two separate assaults at a museum in Tunis and a seashore resort in Sousse.
(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Alex Richardson and Mark Porter)
