In the second stabbing in as many weeks, police in the vicinity of Tunis detained a man on Monday after he stabbed a member of the Tunisian National Guard.
The culprit was swiftly apprehended by police, according to the Interior Ministry. The attack, which happened in the city’s suburb of La Goulette, was not explained. The member of the national guard is doing well after being brought to the hospital.
A police officer was fatally stabbed in a mysterious attack outside the Brazilian consulate in the nation’s capital in the middle of June.
At the time, Faker Bouzghaya, a spokesperson for the ministry, stated that neither the suspect nor the attack’s apparent terrorist motivation were known to the authorities.
The nation has experienced a number of terrorist assaults recently, the most recent of which claimed five lives in March near a synagogue in Djerba.
The incident, which targeted the well-known pilgrimage spot as hundreds headed to the synagogue, claimed three security officers as victims.
It was the second attack to target the synagogue after an Al Qaeda bombing in 2002 that claimed the lives of 21 individuals there.
The country’s tourism industry, a key component of its economy, has also been severely damaged by terrorist strikes.
In 2015, separate attacks in the beach city of Sousse and a museum in Tunis resulted in the deaths of dozens of people, the majority of whom were foreign tourists.
