As many as 27 people were killed Friday in an attack by two gunmen on a beach near two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort district of Sousse, the country's interior ministry said.
Interior Ministry Spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said that one of the gunmen was killed and police are pursuing the other. No information on a motive or claim of responsibility was immediately available.
Sousse, located about 95 miles from the capital city of Tunis, is one of the North African country's most popular beach resorts, drawing tourists from Europe and neighboring countries.
Tunisia has been on high alert since March when gunmen attacked the Bardo museum in Tunis, killing a group of foreign tourists in one of the country’s worst attacks in a decade.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed credit for that attack.
Source: aljazeera
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