One dead, eight injured in two Tunisia suicide bombings

Muscat: At least one municipal police officer was killed and and eight others were injured after two suicide blasts, the interior ministry in Tunisia has said.

Sofiene Zaag, spokesman of the ministry, has said that the first attack in France Avenue resulted in death of one municipal police officer and injury of another.

During the first attack, another policemen and three civilians wer wounded in the suicide attack at the "avenue de France" in downtown Tunis.

"The wounded were rushed to a hospital in the capital to receive the necessary care," said a ministry statement.

A second suicide bombing took place near the back entrance of the El-Gorjani judicial police department ten minutes later.

"Four policemen were wounded in the second attack and were evacuated to a hospital in the capital," according to the Interior Ministry.