Eleven
people were killed Tuesday when a bus carrying members of Tunisia's
presidential guard exploded in Tunis.
The
blast happened when the vehicle was parked near a main artery in the
Tunisian capital where guard members are typically picked up and dropped
off, according to the official in the Tunisian Prime Minister's office.
Tunisia has been held up as one of the success stories of the Arab Spring, the movement that brought sweeping changes to the region. Even so, the
North African nation has seen plenty of violence and turmoil, including
March's bloody attack on the Bardo Museum and a june rampage at the seaside hotel.
ISIS
-- the Islamist extremist group that has taken over vast swaths of
Syria and Iraq while also perpetrating terror elsewhere -- claimed
responsibility for both of those attacks.
It was not immediately clear, however, who was behind Tuesday's explosion in Tunis.
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