TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s National Bardo Museum is open to the public again for the first time since extremist ****** opened **** on foreign tourists earlier this month, ******* 22 people in the country’s ***** ****** on civilians in 13 years.
The government says the man considered the “operational chief” of the ******* was ****** in a security raid Saturday. Two ****** were ****** the day of the March 18 ****** in Tunis.
The Bardo reopened Monday, including sections damaged by the ******. The country’s largest museum, it is renowned for richly colorful Roman mosaics. It houses 8,000 works, and is a top destination for European cruise ship passengers and other tourists.
The ****** was a blow to Tunisia’s fledgling democracy and its tourism industry.