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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Tunisia declares emergency following terror attack in Sousse, Tunisia Sunday July 05,2015

Tunisia's president Beji Essebsi has declared a state of emergency just over a week after an ISIS Gunman slaughtered 38 people on a popular holiday resort in Sousse, Tunisia on June 26,2015

It temporarily gives the government the power to restrict certain freedoms such as people's right to protest and it also grants the police and army more authority.

Tunisia's government has promised new laws to increase police powers and hand out harsher penalties for terrorism convictions

The country's prime minister promised to post armed guards at tourist sites and close mosques outside government control

Seifeddine Rezgui was shot dead by police after he opened fire on a beach packed with holidaymakers and chased them into a nearby hotel, where he threw hand grenades at them

Tunisian detectives investigating his final hours have now arrested his girlfriend over fears she helped plan the attack, as well as a taxi driver they believe drove him to the spot of the onslaught

It has also emerged that the ISIS militant was spotted on the same beach just two weeks before the heinous attack which ended in him being shot dead by the police. 



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