British foreign secretary meets Tunisian leader after attack

The country is offering a financial reward for anyone that will provide information that will lead to the arrest of the three.

Houssem Abdelli, a street vendor from an impoverished neighbourhood of Tunis, detonated his explosives as presidential guards boarded a bus on Tuesday afternoon on one of the capital’s main boulevards, killing 12 people.

The suspects subjected to house arrest had returned “from places in disarray and classified risky by security forces”, the ministry said.

Britain has paid a significant cost with 30 British among the 38, in earlier assaults. It said he was from a working class neighborhood on the edge of Tunis.

Britain’s foreign secretary has met with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, promising his nation’s support after the third deadly attack this year in Tunisia claimed by the Islamic State group.

Abdelli’s bus bombing follows massacres targeting a Sousse resort hotel and the Bardo national museum in Tunis earlier this year.

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement has called for an immediate national conference on combatting terrorism in light of the terrorism attack that occurred yesterday in the country’s capital. As for Tuesdays alleged attacker, identified by authorities as Hussam Abdelli, 26, Chelly said he had been arrested in the past for possession of books of “extremist religious orientation”.

The ministry said 40 people were arrested in the raids, and another 92 placed under house arrest. IS, which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, has exploited the chaos that spread across oil-rich Libya after veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled and killed in its 2011 revolution.