In the same regard, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior said in an official statement, that inspections and researches team of the National Guard in the region of Annaftia, the province of Sousse have
dismantled a terrorist cell composed of 10 elements including 2 women who are active in the regions of Hammam Sousse, Akouda, Harkala and Al-kalaa Al-Koubra (in coast Province of Sousse) aged between 25 and 45 linked to Okba Ibn Nafee (Al-Qaida) battalion, situated in “Chaabani Mountain on Algerian border.
The same source added that terrorists confessed they were communicating with terrorist elements domestically and internationally planning to carry out terrorist operations.