{"id":20277,"date":"2018-10-29T16:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20277"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:23:42","slug":"nine-people-wounded-in-tunis-suicide-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20277","title":{"rendered":"Nine people wounded in Tunis suicide bomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least nine people have been wounded in a suicide bomb blast that rocked the centre of Tunisia<\/a>‘s capital, Tunis, according to the interior ministry.<\/p>\n

A 30-year-old suicide bomber detonated her explosives on Monday afternoon\u00a0near Le Palmarium shopping centre on the busy Habib Bourguiba Avenue, said Sofiene Zaag, interior ministry spokesperson.<\/p>\n

“Eight policemen and one civilian were wounded following this suicide attack,” she said, adding that the bomber was the only fatality.<\/p>\n

Zaag said the injured were transferred to Hospital Charles Nicolle in Tunis and the military hospital.<\/p>\n

According to Radio Mosaique FM, the bomber used a hand-made grenade containing small quantities of explosives.<\/p>\n

Pictures published on the station’s social media platforms showed a veiled woman who appeared to be dead wearing dark trousers, a pink top and a short dark jacket with serious wounds on her left hip and stomach lying on the ground in a cordoned off area.<\/p>\n

The busy avenue, which has many cafes and restaurants as well as hotels, has\u00a0a regular security presence due to the proximity of government buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n

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\nThe 2015 attacks decimated Tunisia’s crucial tourism sector\u00a0<\/span>[Fethi Belaid\/AFP]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Since the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali<\/a>, attacks in Tunisia have killed dozens of members of the security forces and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n

In June 2015, 38 people were killed in a shooting rampage<\/a> at the coastal resort of Sousse which targeted tourists, while an attack on the National Bardo Museum<\/a> in Tunis the same year left 22 people dead.<\/p>\n

The attacks decimated Tunisia’s crucial tourism sector, which made up seven percent of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n

The country has been under a state of emergency since November 2015, when a suicide bombing<\/a> claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group in Tunis killed 12 presidential guards.<\/p>\n

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At least nine people have been wounded in a suicide bomb blast that rocked the centre of Tunisia’s capital, Tunis, according to the interior ministry. A 30-year-old suicide bomber detonated her explosives on Monday afternoon\u00a0near Le Palmarium shopping centre on the busy Habib Bourguiba Avenue, said Sofiene Zaag, interior ministry spokesperson. “Eight policemen and one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}