TUNIS
Tunisian security forces have detained nine suspects, including four who are believed to have been directly involved in Wednesday's deadly attack on a Tunis museum.
"Security forces arrested four suspects for direct links to the attack on the Bardo Museum," Prime Minister Habib Essid said Thursday.
He said another five suspects had been detained for suspected links with the four-member cell.
The arrests came one day after at least 23 people, including 20 foreign tourists, were killed and 47 people injured when gunmen stormed Tunis' Bardo Museum on Wednesday.
Tourists from Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain were among those killed in the attack, for which there has been no claim of responsibility.
In 2002, at least 14 people, including seven foreign tourists, were killed in an attack on a Jewish synagogue in western Tunisia.
