Bardo National Museum attack

Bardo National Museum attack
Tourists, a museum employee, and a member of the Tunisian security forces were killed at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis[1]
Tunis Tunis (Tunisia)
Location	Tunis, Tunisia
Date	18 March 2015 12:30 CET[2]
Target	Parliament of Tunisia Bardo National Museum
Attack type	Mass shooting, hostage taking
Weapons	Kalashnikov rifles Hand grenades[3]
Deaths	24 (including 2 perpetrators)
Injured	42[4]
Perpetrators	Islamic State[4]
Assailants	Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui (both killed)

On 18 March 2015, two militants attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis, and took hostages.^[7] Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, and an additional victim died ten days later. Around fifty others were injured.^[8][9][10] The two gunmen, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed by police.^[11] Police treated the event as a terrorist attack.^[12][13]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, and threatened to commit further attacks.^[14] However, the Tunisian government blamed a local splinter group of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, called the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, for the attack. A police raid killed nine members ten days later.^[5]