New Tunisia shooting: Islamist militants gun down policeman in resort where 30 Brits died in terror attack

Attack: A Tunisian cop has died close to where Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 innocent people

Two Islamist militants riding a motorbike shot dead a Tunisian police officer on Wednesday in the beach resort of Sousse, where a gunman killed 38 people in June, a security source said.

"Two young men on a motorbike opened fire on the police. At least one police officer is dead," the security source said, asking not to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Afrique360 reported he was waiting for public transport to get to his workplaceand was with two of his colleagues, who were not hurt.


No further details were immediately available.

Tunisia is struggling to protect its vital tourism centres following the Sousse killings, where ISIS-affiliated gunman Seifeddine Rezgui’s massacred 30 Brits on the beach in Sousse and an attack in March against foreign visitors at the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Fears: Police patrol the beach near Sousse, Tunisia

Since its 2011 uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has emerged as a model for democratic transition in the Middle East.
But the North African state has also struggled with a rising militant threat.

Murderer: ISIS gunman Seifeddine Rezgui

Tense: Extra security and police patrol the the beach of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse, Tunisia

Officials say more than 3,000 Tunisians have left to fight in Iraq and Syria and increasingly in neighbouring Libya, where the chaos generated by a battle between two rival governments has left a security vacuum for militant groups to grow.
The gunmen in the Sousse attack and the Bardo Museum were trained in militant camps in Libya, but officials and family say they were radicalised by militant groups at home through local mosques or contacts on the internet.