The ISIS terrorist group claimed on Thursday responsibility for the two suicide attacks on security forces in the Tunisian capital earlier in the day.
The first suicide bomber targeted a police patrol in Charles de Gaulle Street in central Tunis. One police officer was killed and at least one other as well as three civilians were wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
Shortly afterwards, a second bomber blew himself up near a police station in the al-Gorjani district. Four people were wounded, the ministry said.
Heavily armed police cordoned off the locations of the attacks, one of which was about 200 meters away from the French embassy. Reuters witnesses saw people rushing away from the scene, while the body of one suicide bomber lay on the ground.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sofian Zaak said the attackers had not yet been identified, and he called on the public to show strength and not panic.
Last October, a woman blew herself up in the center of the capital Tunis, wounding 15 people including 10 police officers in an explosion that broke a long period of calm after dozens had died in militant attacks in 2015.
Security has improved since authorities imposed a state of emergency in November 2015 after those attacks - one at a museum in Tunis and another on a beach in Sousse. A third attack targeted presidential guards in the capital. ISIS claimed responsibility.
