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             Tunisia Declares State of Emergency After Beach Attack

   by VOA News

   Tunisia's president declared a state of emergency on Saturday, eight
   days after a gunman at a popular resort attacked foreign tourists on
   the beach, killing 38 people.

   It was not immediately clear why President Beji Caid Essebsi decided to
   declare the state of emergency, or what it would entail. The state news
   agency said the president would address the nation later in the day.

   An earlier state of emergency, granting special powers to the police
   and army, was lifted in March 2014, having been in force since longtime
   president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in a 2011 revolution.

   Tunisia has faced a surge in jihadist violence since the revolution in
   which dozens of police and soldiers have been killed.

   Thirty of the 38 dead in the Tunisian resort of Sousse were British
   tourists. Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister David Cameron
   led a moment of silence Friday for those victims.

   ''Other vacationers killed were from Belgium, Germany, Ireland,
   Portugal and Russia.

   The gunman, Saif Rezgui, was killed by security forces in the city of
   Sousse following the shooting.

   Officials have said he was the only shooter, but that they were
   searching for people who may have provided help before the attack.

   The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, just as it did when two
   gunmen killed 21 people at the Bardo museum in Tunis in March.

   Officials said Rezgui and the Bardo gunmen trained in Libya at the same
   time.
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