TERRORISM IN TUNIS
Sten Gun Fired In Arab Cafe, (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) • , TUNIS, July 12. Four Tunisians were killed and six seriously injured in Tunisia last night in two attacks believed to have been a retaliation for the machine gun killing of six French civilians at Ferryville on Saturday night. A group of Europeans fired several bursts of sten gun fire at an Arab cafe terrace from a stationary car at El Bathan, a few miles west of Tunis, when two Arabs were killed and three seriously injured. A similar attack took place a few hours later at Djemmal, in the southern Sahel region, when two Tunisians were killed and three injured. In both cases the attackers escaped. At Ferryville, 40 miles north-west of Tunis, police declared a curfew after an attack on Saturday reported to have been carried out by fellaghas, desert bandits of the “Tunisian Liberation Army.” The army aims to throw the French out of the protectorate.
The terrorists fired on French civilians packing a cafe terrace, and on a bus load of French naval dockyard workers.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27402, 15 July 1954, Page 15
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