Clash at Tunisian military barracks near Libya kills 54

Mar 12, 2016, 01:00

In statements broadcast on state television, Essebsi said the assault was "maybe aimed at controlling" the border region with Libya, and he vowed to "exterminate these rats".

Five civilians and four security personnel were also killed in the ongoing clashes, Xinhua news agency reported citing Radio Mosaique FM.

"The attack that happened yesterday showed that our military and security forces were ready", he told a news conference. "We won a battle and are prepared for any others", Essid said.

Tunisia chose to close its borders with its neighbour Libya following clashes between the Tunisian army and militants in the city of Ben Guerdan.

"They said they were Daesh and they came to target the army and the police".

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It is the second terrorist attack on the town in a week. In Paris, France's foreign ministry identified the gunmen as "coming from Libyan territory".

Intelligence agencies said that more than 3,000 Tunisians have joined Islamic State and fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi says his country is waging war against barbarians following an attack that left at least 45 people dead near the Libyan border.

Protests over scarce jobs and an ineffective government also drove similar unrest five years ago and spurred authoritarian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to flee in January 2011, making Tunisia the first of what would become several nations in the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East where popular uprisings led to the ouster of longtime leaders.

Libya is ruled by two parliaments: an internationally recognized body based in the eastern city of Tobruk and a rival government, backed by Islamist-allied militias, that controls the capital, Tripoli.

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"This attack was an unprecedented, well-organised".

Dozens of heavily armed fighters stormed a police station and a military barracks, headquarters of the elite National Guard, officials said. He was killed in his house when he was preparing to go to work, at the beginning of the attack. "The majority of Tunisians are now in a state of war against barbarism".

Islamist militant gunmen trained in Libyan camps carried out two of the three major attacks on Tunisia past year, including assaults on the Tunis Bardo museum and a Sousse beach hotel targeting foreign tourists.

Tunisian forces have been alert for possible infiltration since last month when a US air strike targeted mostly Tunisian ISIS militants at a camp near the border in Libya's Sabratha.

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