Terrorist Outrage In Tunisia
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) FERRYVILLE (Tunisia), July 10. Eight persons were killed and 12 wounded when terrorists opened up with machine-gun fire during a festival in the main square of Ferryville tonight. Two men in Arab clothing fired bursts of Sten-gun fire into a bus. Seconds later several other terrorists stepped up to a cafe terrace and fired point blank into a group of men drinking there. Five men on the terrace were killed—three Frenchmen and two Tunisians. A dozen persons Were wounded in the bus and one Frenchman killed. As the terrorists ran down the street, they shot dead a Frenchwoman and her son. They then jumped into a car waiting for them and escaped. Ferryville is 12 miles south of nizerta and 37 miles north-west of Tunis. The shooting was by far the worst attack in the recent increase of terrorist violence in the French protectorate.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 6
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