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Tunisia ‘terror’ standoff: five women and a man killed in Tunis suburb | Tunisia ‘terror’ standoff: five women and a man killed in Tunis suburb |
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Tunisian authorities stormed the home of suspected militants to end a 24-hour standoff on Friday, leaving five women and one man dead in a suburb of the capital Tunis. | |
Police officers responding to a tipoff had surrounded the home in Oued Ellil on Thursday and were shot at by the inhabitants. One policeman was killed. | |
One gunman was killed and another captured during the raid on Friday morning and one child and a security forces member were wounded, the state news agency said. | |
Interior ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui described all the dead as “terrorists”. | |
Negotiations to evacuate the women and children, who Aroui said were apparently family members of the gunmen, were unsuccessful. | |
In another clash on Thursday, police arrested two men armed with assault rifles in the southern city of Kebili in a dispute that killed a bystander, officials said. Aroui said the men were planning a terrorist attack but did not elaborate further. | |
Tunisia is holding key a parliamentary election on Sunday, hoping to complete its democratic transition after the 2011 overthrow of longtime dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. There have been warnings by the government that terrorists would seek to disrupt the vote. | |
In recent weeks, Tunisian security forces have conducted a string of operations aimed at dismantling extremist cells. |
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