Nine people injured as woman blows herself up in Tunis

Interior Ministry describes incident as a 'terrorist explosion'

TUNIS: Nine people, including eight policemen, were wounded when a woman blew herself up in what a spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry described as a "terrorist explosion" in central Tunis on Monday.

A witness had reported an explosion on the central Habib
Bourguiba avenue where police were cordoning off the area near
the capital's landmark Municipal Theatre.



Ambulances could be heard rushing to the scene. "I was in front of the theatre and heard a huge explosion and saw people fleeing," witness Mohamed Ekbal bin Rajib told.

#BREAKING Strong explosion heard in central Tunis pic.twitter.com/DgY9yWIY7w

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 29, 2018

#Tunis #Tunisia female suicide bomber at the Habib Bourguiba, on of the most busy streets of the capital, one police officer dead on the spot several wounded, area secured by the police while ambulances keeps rushing in. Sources and photo is mash-up from Twitter pic.twitter.com/FHzVHqcZ4O

— Karim Benabdallah (@karim2k) October 29, 2018

#Tunisia- initial, still unconfirmed, reports of an explosion along Habib Bourguiba avenue in Central #Tunis.
Further unconfirmed reports claim this may have been caused by a female suicide bomber. pic.twitter.com/GfmvFYGo0v

— Oded Berkowitz (@Oded121351) October 29, 2018