Tunisian police officer shot at resort attack town

An interior ministry spokesman said the two other policemen were unharmed, contrary to an earlier report from Wataniya-1 television.

Rafik Chelly, secretary of state for national security, told AFP: “Unknown assailants fired on three policemen on a road”.

The ministry statement said a vast search was underway for the attackers, who shot at the police while they were on the edge of the city of Sousse waiting for transportation to the nearby town Kairouan.

A Tunisian policeman was shot dead on Wednesday by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse where a gunman killed 38 tourists in June, a senior security official said.

Tunisia is struggling to protect its vital tourism centres following the Sousse killings, where ISIS-affiliated gunman Seifeddine Rezgui’s massacred 30 Brits on the beach in Sousse and an attack in March against foreign visitors at the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Tunisian police have been carrying out raids across the country, arresting hundreds in an attempt to defeat the terrorist threat.

Thirty Britons were killed in the attack and the Foreign Office are now advising against all but essential travel to Tunisia.

The first group of British holidaymakers were due to return to Tunisia from October 31.