Tunisia Police Exchange Fire with Armed Group near Capital

Local Editor

Tunisian police were exchanging gunfire Thursday with armed "terrorists" who had taken refuge in a town near the capital, the interior ministry said.

"Security forces have surrounded a house in Oued Ellil harboring terrorists and exchanges of gunfire are ongoing," spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told local radio, after security was beefed up ahead of Tunisia’s parliamentary election Sunday.

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