Tunisian security forces on Thursday (May 2nd) continued their hunt for two armed jihadist groups near the Algerian border.
“There are two groups, one of about 15 to 20 people in Jebel Chaambi… Another group is in the Kef region,” interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AFP.
According to Colonel Mokhtar Ben Naceur, Algeria was assisting, but the help was limited to intelligence-sharing.
“When there is concrete information, it is shared. There is no joint action on the ground,” Ben Naceur said.
Since Monday, some 15 soldiers and National Guard members have been wounded in the Jebel Chaambi clashes.
One of the injured soldiers told Mosaique FM that he had observed terrorist training camps in the remote mountainous zone.
The terrorists had “built a small town, where they sleep and train”, Tunisie Numerique quoted Bassem Belhaj Yahia as saying.
