Suicide bombers attack police near US Embassy in Tunisia

By Zach Halaschak

Published March 6, 2020 7:35pm ET

Suicide bombers attack police near US Embassy in Tunisia — Afghan security forces inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 18, 2020. A suicide bomber in a stolen military Humvee targeted a base in eastern Afghanistan belonging to the country's intelligence service early on Monday, killing at least nine members of the force, Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. | (Rahmat Gul/AP)

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.

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