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Tunisia Bardo museum attack: Man arrested in Italy | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
Italian police have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the attack on Tunisia's national museum which killed 22 people in March. | |
Police said the detained man, Moroccan Abdelmajid Touil, had arrived in Italy on a migrant boat in February. | |
His alleged role in the attack in Tunis has not been made clear. | |
Tourists from Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain were among those killed when gunmen opened fire at the Bardo museum in March. | |
They stormed the building and took hostages. Two of the gunmen - identified by the authorities as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui - were killed by security forces. | They stormed the building and took hostages. Two of the gunmen - identified by the authorities as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui - were killed by security forces. |
Islamic State has previously said it was behind the raid. | Islamic State has previously said it was behind the raid. |
It is alleged that 22-year-old Mr Touil "participated indirectly in the attack, supporting the ones who carried it out", the Associated Press news agency quotes a Tunisian official as saying. | |
It is not clear whether he was in Italy or Tunisia at the time. | |
The Italian authorities say that Mr Touil first came to their attention in February when he arrived in the country illegally and he was told to leave. | |
In the days after the attack, Tunisian authorities arrested a number of people. | In the days after the attack, Tunisian authorities arrested a number of people. |
At the end of March, they claimed to have killed the alleged leader of the assault, Lokman Abu Sakhra. | At the end of March, they claimed to have killed the alleged leader of the assault, Lokman Abu Sakhra. |
Sally Adey, from the UK, was one of those killed. She was on an excursion from a cruise ship with her husband Robert who survived the attack. |
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