Three terror attacks stun 3 continents: Islamist militants kill at least 63 in Tunisia, Kuwait and France
Three terror attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait wreaked havoc on Friday. The attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamist militants.
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A French Gendarme blocks the access road to the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier industrial area, near Lyon, France on Friday. Unknown persons rammed a car into the premises of a US gas company in southeast France on Friday, exploding gas containers in an apparent attack which bore the hallmarks of Islamist militants and left one dead and several wounded, police sources and French media said. REUTERS
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French special Police forces escort a woman from a residential building during a raid in Saint-Priest, near Lyon, France, on Friday. The suspect arrested for a French Islamist attack did not have a criminal record but had been under watch as being possibly radicalised, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Friday. REUTERS
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In this screengrab taken from video provided by TNN, a body is covered on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, Tunisia on Friday. Two gunmen rushed from the beach into a hotel in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding six others in the latest attack on the North African country’s key tourism industry, the interior ministry said. Image courtesy: TNN via AP
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An injured person is being treated on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, on Friday. A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people at a Tunisian beach resort — one of three deadly attacks from Europe to the Middle East on Friday that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists. Image courtesy: Jawhara FM via AP
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Kuwaiti security forces gather outside the Shiite Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque after it was targeted by a suicide bombing during Friday prayers in Kuwait City. The Islamic State group-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia, calling itself Najd Province, said militant Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid carried out the attack, which it claimed was spreading Shiite teachings among Sunni Muslims. AFP
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Kuwaiti men react over a body at the site of a suicide bombing that targeted the Shiite Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque after it was targeted by a suicide bombing during Friday prayers in Kuwait City. AFP
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Kuwaiti security personnel and medical staff carry a man on a stretcher at the site of a suicide bombing that targeted the Shiite Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque after it was targeted by a suicide bombing during Friday prayers in Kuwait City. AFP
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