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An ambulance moved to a wounded to a hospital in the province of Kaserin in Tunisia, bordering Algeria. EFE / File
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Three Tunisian soldiers killed in a terrorist attack on the Algerian border
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04/07/2015 10:40 (-6 GTM)
Tunisia, April 7 (EFE) .- At least three Tunisian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an attack by suspected terrorists against a military unit guarding a mountainous area around the city of Esbeitla, the region bordering Kaserin Algeria, announced the Defense Ministry.
According defense spokesman said, Belhasan Oueslati, “to have suspicions of terrorist movements” a military unit went to the mountainous area of Megillah, where he was attacked by a group armed.
This is the first terrorist action involving fatalities occurring after the attack Bardo museum in which 21 foreign tourists and a Tunisian policeman, died last March 18.
In the region of Kaserin border with Algeria, there is a military exclusion zone of 100 square kilometers where Mount Chaambi, which serves as a transit shelter and jihadists Tunisian, Algerian and the Sahel is located.
The author group the attack on the Bardo Museum in this area had their shelter.
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