[TIME] Tunisia's prime minister said Sunday a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, as tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital to denounce bad boy violence.State news agency TAP cites Prime Minister Habib Essid as saying that Khaled Chaieb, also known as Abou Sakhr Lokman, was one of nine terror suspects killed overnight in an operation near the Algerian border. ne people were killed in the operationds of people
Chaieb is believed a prominent Algerian krazed killer in al-Qaeda's North African arm, and suspected of leading or helping lead the March 18 attack on the National Bardo Museum.
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The men allegedly belonged to the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, which authorities have claimed was behind the March 18 attack on the Bardo Museum that left a Tunisian policeman and 21 foreign tourists dead.
The interior ministry on Thursday accused Okba Ibn Nafaa of organizing the massacre, which was claimed by the Islamic State
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group in its first alleged attack on Tunisian soil.
Aroui said top jihadists were among those killed in Saturday's operation, which took place in a region about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the Algerian border, further south than Tunisian jihadist groups usually operate.
Authorities say Okba Ibn Nafaa has been behind a series of attacks on security forces that have left some 60 dead since late 2012.