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| Reports: 'Terrorists' Behead Off-Duty Tunisia Policeman | |
| 2014-12-02 | |
| [AnNahar] "Terrorists" in Tunisia have kidnapped and decapitated an off-duty policeman, media reports on Monday cited the interior ministry as saying. The officer and his brother were in a car in the Kef area of the northwest when gunnies seeking to rob them immobilized the vehicle.
The man's brother was not harmed in the attack which happened on Thursday but has only just been reported. Security forces are now engaged in a mopping up operation in the mountainous area, which is close to the frontier with Algeria. Since the revolution of January 2011, Tunisia has seen a rise in Islamist extremism. For the past two years, the army has been hunting jihadists in the border area. Deadly ambushes by gunnies on the police and army are common in the region, where cross-border smuggling of fuel and food is also rife. | |
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