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Authorities identifies bus attack suicide bomber, makes 30 arrests

Tunisian authorities have identified the suicide bomber from Tuesday's bus attack as a Tunisian national, and have made 30 more arrests since the blast that killed 12 presidential guards in the capital, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Tunisian forensics police inspect a Tunisian presidential guard bus at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Tunis, Tunisia November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Islamic State has claimed the attack, the third major militant assault in Tunisia this year following the attacks on a Sousse beach resort and the Bardo museum in the capital, both targeting foreign visitors.

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