One person is dead, and four more are wounded after two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia.
The blast happened in the business district of Tunis on Friday and appeared to target a security patrol. At about 11 a.m. local time, the bombers drove toward a police truck parked nearby the embassy and detonated the explosives.
No group has claimed responsibility, but the country has been the target of attacks from the Islamic State, including a 2015 attack at a Tunisian beach resort popular with tourists that killed 39 people. Friday’s violence is the worst that Tunisia has seen in months.
Debris and human remains were littered across the road near the embassy as investigators congregated at the blast site.
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Thousands of Tunisian citizens migrated into Iraq and Syria to train and fight with ISIS while it still had a substantial territorial caliphate in the Middle East. Others traveled to Libya, which is grappling with violence.
Tunisia became the first country to begin protests during the 2011 Arab Spring, which resulted in the overthrow of its leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Other countries followed, including Egypt and Libya, and Syria has been in a full civil war since 2011.
