Russia Today is reporting developing news that gunmen have taken hostages in Tunis’s Bardo Museum. RT say the hostage takers were militants disguised as soldiers and that gunfire has been heard.The museum is next door to the country’s parliament. Yesterday Tunisia’s tourism minister Selma Elluni Rekik told wire service ANSA, ‘There is no security problem in Tunisia. Everything is under control.’ The Bardo contains a major collection of Roman mosaics and antiquities from Ancient Greece, Tunisia and the Islamic period.
18 March 2015
