A police officer has been killed and several others wounded in two suicide bomb attacks in the Tunisian capital on Thursday.
According to government sources, the first attack targetted a police patrol in Charles de Gaulle Street in central Tunis, killing one officer and injuring another and three civilians.
Shortly afterwards, a second suicide bomber blew himself up near a police station in al-Gorjani district, leaving four people wounded.
It was not immediately known who was behind the attack.
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Indian state studies plan to ban petrol, diesel vehicles in Mumbai
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Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough
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