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Security officers in Tunisia say a police officer has been killed and one different wounded in a knife assault inside the coastal resort of Sousse.
Three assailants have been shot ineffective after the incident, which is being described as a terrorist assault.
Sousse was the scene of one of Tunisia’s worst attacks, when 38 people, most of them British vacationers, have been killed by a gunman.
The most recent incident comes two days after a model new authorities was sworn in.
“A patrol of two Nationwide Guard officers was attacked with a knife inside the centre of Sousse,” Nationwide Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli acknowledged, in step with the AFP info firm.
“One died as a martyr and the alternative was wounded and is hospitalised,” he acknowledged.
“This was a terrorist assault”.
The knifemen stole weapons and a police vehicle all through the assault sooner than making off, Mr Jebabli acknowledged. Security forces took off after them by the use of the vacationer areas of El Kantaoui.
“In a firefight three terrorists have been killed,” he acknowledged, together with that two weapons and the automotive have been recovered.
Thirty-eight people misplaced their lives when a gunman opened fireplace on vacationers staying in El Kantaoui in June 2015. Thirty of those killed have been British vacationers staying on the Resort Rui Imperial Marhaba.
The Islamic State (IS) acknowledged it was behind the assault by Tunisian scholar Seifeddine Rezgui.
The situation in Tunisia has improved drastically since then, although a state of emergency is in place.
This week Tunisia’s parliament authorised a model new authorities formed by Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi.
Mr Mechichi appointed technocrats to his authorities pretty than members of political occasions as had been the case before now.
