Guard fatally stabbed outside Brazil embassy in Tunisia
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP):
An attacker fatally stabbed a security guard on Monday outside Brazil’s embassy in Tunis before being shot and arrested, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said.
The guard “was wounded by a sharp object” wielded “by a person he was questioning over the reason for his presence in the perimeter of the embassy”, the ministry said in a statement.
He died at a hospital shortly after, interior ministry spokesman Faker Bouzghaya told AFP.
“This is a criminal act unrelated to terrorism,” by a suspect who was “mentally troubled”, he added.
Security forces fired at the suspect, wounding him in the leg, before taking him into custody, according to the ministry.
Authorities have not identified the man, who was transported to hospital for treatment.
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