Tunisian police on Monday were hunting for accomplices they believed helped a gunman who killed as many as 38 people at a beach resort before he was shot dead by authorities.
As well, the Tunisian government said it had established a
new tourist police unit to protect hotel resorts after the
attack Friday in the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse, a popular
holiday destination for tourists.
Politicians said as many as 1,000 officers could be
deployed for tourist protection.
The Tunisian authorities were seeking accomplices of
Seifeddine Rezgui, 24, according to interior ministry spokesman
Mohamed Ali Aroui.
Rezgui was a graduate of Tunisia's Kairouan University
where he had been living with the other students.
The gunman did not act alone, said Selma Elloumi Rekik,
minister of tourism for Tunisia, in an interview with Radio
Montecarlo.
In Italy, police said that "maximum attention" would be
paid to security in the Adriatic sea port of Ancona after the
attack in Tunisia.
Security officials said concerns were heightened further
after attacks at roughly the same time in France and Kuwait.
Security had already been increased after 22 people were
killed in March at the National Bardo Museum outside Tunis -
mostly tourists as in Friday's beach attack.
The attack in France involved a man who said he killed his
boss.
The victim was decapitated and his head stuck on a post
outside a gas factory near Lyon.
There the attacker Yassin Salhi rammed his van into the
US-owned Air Products factory in what President Francois
Hollande said was a "terrorist" attack designed to blow up the
whole building.
At approximately the same time in Kuwait, a man blew
himself up at a mosque, killing at least 27 people.
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