Three Tunisia police ,ihadist killed in clashes

TUNIS<

Three Tunisian policemen and a suspected
jihadist were killed on Monday in clashes
in the centre of the country ,the interior ministry
said.

"The national guard attempted to ambush at dawn
two terrorists on a motocyle in Sidi Ali Ben Aoun
after obtaining information that (they) were about
to launch an operation"ministry spokesman Mohamed
Ali Aroui told AFP

He said two officers were killed in the ensuing
shoot-out and that the militants fled before killing
a third policemen who had been going to work.
They were pursued by an elite unit of the national
guard ,Aroui said.

"One of the terrorists w as exterminated ,the second
was wounded  and arrested ,He is in a serious conditin
he added,

Twelve people were wounded ,including three members
of the security forces,a soldier and eight bystanders,
an official at the nearby Sidi Bouzid  hospital told
AFP One civilian was in a critical condition ,the official
added.

Tunisia has been a surge in radical Islam since veteran
president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in the
2011 revolution Dozens of members of the security
forces have been killed since then jihadist attacks.