Morocco- Tunisian Police Kill 2 Suspected Terrorists in Kasserine
(MENAFN- Morocco World News) Police killed two suspected jihadi terrorists and seized guns and a suicide belt in a raid Wednesday in the western region of Kasserine, Tunisia's interior Ministry said.
The two men were known to police and had been on a
terrorist wanted list before dying in an hours-long shootout that lasted from Tuesday into early Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement the two men had been planning a terrorist attack in the region and called the mission a 'preventative assault.' One other civilian was killed in the gun battle after being struck by a stray bullet fired by one of the jihadists, police said. The raid comes just two days after landmines and rockets were used to ambush a military patrol in a remote mountain area in nearby Kasserine. Three soldiers were killed and eight more wounded in the ambush, which was claimed by the al-Qaida linked group Okba Ibn Nafaa. With MAP data-ad-client="ca-pub-9546318280945074" data-ad-slot="9241175969"> jQuery.ajax({ url: "http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/", data: { top_ten_id: 195612, top_ten_blog_id: 1, activate_counter: 11, top10_rnd: (new Date()).getTime() + "-" + Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000) } });
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