Extremist stabs 2 police officers near Parliament
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A suspected Islamic extremist stabbed two police officers Wednesday near Tunisia's Parliament headquarters in an unusually bold attack that rattled the capital.
The attacker, a 25-year-old known to authorities for radicalism, was quickly arrested, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Security reinforcements were rushed to the site in a western suburb of Tunis and cordoned off the area. The stabbing occurred near the country's leading museum, the Bardo—itself the target of one of Tunisia's deadliest attacks when two extremists trained in Libya gunned down tourists in 2015.
One of the officers is in intensive care after being stabbed in the neck, the ministry said. The other rushed to his aid and was stabbed in the forehead and was treated for lighter injuries, it said.
