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Museum massacre in Tunisia

Nineteen people, including 17 foreign tourists, are killed when militants attack a museum in Tunis.

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Museum massacre in Tunisia

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  1. Museum massacre in Tunisia

  2. Police officers are seen on the pavement outside parliament in Tunis March 18, 2015. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  3. Police officers stand outside the parliament in Tunis March 18, 2015. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  4. A tourist injured after the attack is wheeled on a stretcher. "They just started opening fire on the tourists as they were getting out of the buses ... I couldn't see anything except blood and the dead," the driver of a tourist coach told journalists at the scene. REUTERS/Stringer

  5. Scores of visitors fled into the museum and the militants took hostages inside, government officials said. Security forces entered the building, a former palace, around two hours later, killed two militants and freed the captives, a government spokesman said. A police officer died in the operation. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  6. Police officers and a journalist run outside the parliament in Tunis March 18, 2015. Visitors from Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain were among the dead in the noon assault on Bardo museum inside the heavily guarded parliament compound in central Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid said. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  7. A bus damaged by an attack by gunmen on Tunisia's national museum is seen in Tunis March 18, 2015. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  8. Tourists who survived the attack. Television footage showed dozens of people, including elderly foreigners and one man carrying a child, running for shelter in the compound, covered by security forces aiming rifles into the air. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  9. The attack on such a high-profile target is a blow for the small North African country that relies heavily on European tourism and has mostly avoided major militant violence since its 2011 uprising to oust autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  10. After a crisis between secular leaders and the Islamist party which won the country's first election, Tunisia has emerged as a model of compromise politics and transition to democracy for the region. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  11. Security forces stormed the former palace around two hours later, killed two militants and freed other tourists held hostage inside, a government spokesman said. One policeman was killed in the police operation. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  12. People surround an ambulance carrying the bodies of the victims. "All Tunisians should be united after this attack which was aimed at destroying the Tunisian economy," Prime Minister Essid declared in a national address. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  13. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington condemned the attack and continued "to support the Tunisian government's efforts to advance a secure, prosperous, and democratic Tunisia. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  14. The museum is known for its collection of ancient Tunisian artifacts and mosaics and other treasures from classical Rome and Greece. There were no immediate reports the attackers had copied Islamic State militants in Iraq by targeting exhibits seen by hardliners as idolatrous. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  15. A tourist injured wheeled. Tunisia's uprising inspired "Arab Spring" revolts in neighboring Libya and in Egypt, Syria and Yemen. But its adoption of a new constitution and staging of largely peaceful elections had won widespread praise and stood in stark contrast to the chaos that has plagued those countries. REUTERS/Stringer

  16. Wednesday's assault was the worst attack involving foreigners in Tunisia since an al Qaeda suicide bombing on a synagogue killed 21 people on the tourist island of Djerba in 2002. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

  17. The local stock exchanged dropped nearly 2.5 percent before closing and two German tour operators said they were cancelling trips from Tunisia's beach resorts to Tunis for a few days. Accor, Europe�s largest hotel group, said it had tightened security at its two hotels in Tunisia. REUTERS/ Zoubeir Souissi

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