A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed 37 people at a Tunisian beach resort — one of three deadly attacks from Europe to the Middle East on Friday that followed a call to violence by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant extremists.
Health Ministry spokesman Choukri Nafti said another 36 people were wounded in Friday’s attack and two or three of them are in critical condition.
The killings in the Tunisian resort of Sousse happened at about the same time as a bombing at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait which killed at least 25 and an attack on a U.S.-owned factory in France that included a beheading. It was unclear if the violence was linked but it came days after the ISIL militants urged their followers “to make Ramadan a month of calamities for the nonbelievers.”
The attack in Tunisia, the country’s worst ever, comes just months after the
March 18 assault on the national museum in Tunis that killed 22 people, again mostly tourists, and has called into question the newly elected government’s ability to protect the country.
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