Tunisia: Anti-terror march as museum suspect killed

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said his country will stay "united against terrorism" in the wake of the Bardo museum massacre.

Speaking after a mass anti-terror march through the country's capital today Essebsi said: "The Tunisian people will not bow.

"We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon."

The march, which was attended by tens of thousands of people, including world leaders such as France's President Hollande was organised as a sign of solidarity against Islamist militants following the terrorist attack on a Tunisian museum which killed 21 foreign tourists and a policeman.

World leaders joined thousands of demonstrators in Tunis taking part in an anti-terror march.

In attendance was President Francois Hollande, who earlier today announced that French woman Huguette Dupeu, who was injured in the attack, had died from her wounds.

Chanting "Tunisia is free! Terrorism out!" demonstrators marched to the Bardo Museum, the scene of an attack in which 21 tourists and a Tunisian died.

Hours before the march, the Tunisian Prime Minister said that the alleged leader of the attack, Lokman Abu Sakhra had been killed in an anti-terrorism operation.

A man suspected to have helped carry out the Bardo Museum attack on foreign tourists in Tunisia has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, the country's prime minister says.

Prime Minister Habib Essid said Khaled Chaieb, also known as Abou Sakhr Lokman, was killed overnight in an operation in the Gafsa region near the Algerian border.

He is believed to be a prominent militant in al Qaida's North African arm, and suspected of leading or helping lead the March 18 attack on the National Bardo Museum.

Twenty-two people, mainly foreigners, and two gunmen were killed in the attack.

An interior ministry official has said that Tunisian forces killed nine militants during a raid in a southern region as part of crackdown following the attack on the Tunis Bardo museum that targeted foreign tourists.

The operations late on Saturday in Gafsa region came hours before thousands of Tunisians were expected to join world leaders including French President Francois Hollande in a march of solaridity in Tunis.

Two gunmen killed 20 tourists at the Bardo Museum nearly two weeks ago, in one of the worst attacks in the North African country that mostly avoided violence since its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.