At least 19 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a museum in the Tunisian capital.
Two men dressed in military-style clothing stormed the Bardo national museum in Tunis at around midday local time, where they may have taken hostages, Radio Mosaique reports.
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And 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians were killed in the shooting, an interior ministry spokesman said. Poland’s foreign ministry said that three Poles were among at least 24 people wounded.
The victims were Polish, Spanish, German, Italian and Tunisian, Prime Minister Habib Essid said.
Local radio said that the gunmen took a number of people, including British nationals, hostage before planning an attack on the parliament building.
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Tunisian armed forces surrounded the museum, which is next to the national parliament, this afternoon. Two or three accomplices are still thought to be at large.
The attack came just days after Tunisian Isis militant Ahmed Al-Rouissi was killed in clashes with Libyan troops. Commentators suggested there may be a link between Al-Rouissi’s murder and today’s attack.
The Bardo museum has one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics and is one of the country’s biggest attractions.
