Tunisia extends state of emergency for two months

(VOVworld) -  On Tuesday Tunisia extended for another two months a state of emergency imposed following a November suicide attack in Tunis that killed 12 presidential guards and injured 20 others.

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Tunisian forensic police inspect the wreckage of a bus in central Tunis on November 25, 2015 in the aftermath of a bomb attack on the vehicle which was transporting Tunisia's presidential guard (File photo: Fethi Belaid/AFP)

President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Tuesday that the state of emergency will continue until February 21, 2016.

Tunisian authorities also imposed a curfew on Tunis and closed the border with Libya, where investigators believe the attack was planned.

Earlier attacks -- at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis and at a hotel near the Mediterranean resort of Sousse -- killed 60 people, most of them foreign tourists. 

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