Islamist militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the knife attack on Sunday in the coastal city of Sousse in Tunisia which killed one National Guard and left another one wounded.
The group sent out a statement on the messaging service telegram claiming responsibility without giving any evidence to support its claim that its “fighters” were behind the attack.
Three terrorists, who rammed their vehicle into a security checkpoint and proceeded to attack the officers with knives, were shot dead in the attack.
According to National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli, seven people have been arrested while another 43 people have been questioned in connection with the ‘terrorist attack’.
Jebabli said that one of the 43 people was “the wife of one of the assailants, who described her husband as a ‘martyr’ during the interrogation.”
Tunisian authorities have battled against militant groups which operate in remote areas near the border with Algeria since the 2011 uprising which ousted the government of Zine Abidine Ben Ali.
In March, a police officer was killed and several other people were injured after two militants blew themselves up outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis.
Last year in July, one police officer was killed and several other people were injured after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in separate attacks on police in Tunis.
In 2015, a jihadist gunman opened fire killing 38 people, majority of them British people, at a seaside resort in Sousse just three months after 22 people were killed in an attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in 2015.
