Reuters TUNIS: Tunisian premier Habib Essid fired six police commanders Monday, including the head of tourist security, after a militant attack on the national museum last week in which 20 foreign visitors were killed.
The premier’s office spokesman, Mofdi Mssedi, said the six also included an intelligence brigade chief, the Tunis district police chief, the traffic police commander, a Bardo museum security chief and a commander for the capital’s Sidi Bachir district.
“Prime Minister Habib Essid visited the Bardo museum yesterday and took note of several security failures there,” Mssedi said.
Militant gunmen killed 20 foreign tourists last Wednesday as they got off buses at the Bardo museum.
One police officer working at the museum had been arrested for abandoning his post during the attack, local radio and media reported.
Two gunmen were shot dead at the scene in Tunis and authorities say they are looking for a third suspect. They have so far arrested more than 20 people.
ISIS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed that their supporters carried out the attack although a local Al-Qaeda affiliated group known as Okba Ibn Nafaa has also published details and comments on the assault.
Security fears delay reopening of Tunisia national museum
Agence France Presse TUNIS: Tunisia's national museum on Tuesday delayed a planned reopening after last week's attack on foreign tourists due to security concerns, its head of communications Hanene Srarfi told AFP.
"We have been surprised at the last minute, but the interior ministry says that for security reasons we cannot receive a large number of visitors," she said, adding that an official ceremony marking the reopening of the museum would still go ahead.
Officials at the Bardo Museum had planned to allow the public back in on Tuesday, six days after an attack claimed by ISIS killed 21 people.
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