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Islamic State claims responsibility for Tunisian museum attack

Agencies | Updated: 2015-03-20 07:52

Islamic State claims responsibility for Tunisian museum attack

A still image taken from video shows tourists running for cover as armed men stand guard at Tunisia's national museum in Tunis, March 18, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

"Suddenly, we started to hear the gunshots, so we all tried to escape and all of us tried to save ourselves as best we could," said Bruna Scherini, an Italian who arrived by cruise ship. She told Sky TG24 from her hospital bed: "We tried to hide behind the exhibits and in the corners where there was a little hiding place."

A Spanish man and a pregnant Spanish woman who survived hid in the museum all night in fear. Spain's foreign minister said police searched all night before Juan Carlos Sanchez and Cristina Rubio were found Thursday morning by security forces.

Dr. Samar Samoud of the Health Ministry said six of the dead foreigners remained unidentified. She listed the rest of the foreign victims as three from Japan, three from France, two from Spain, and one each from Australia, Colombia, Britain, Poland, Belgium and Italy.

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