A third gunman in the massacre of tourists at Tunisia's national museum is still at large four days after two others were killed, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said today.
"Definitely there were three," President Essebsi told France's Itele television and Europe 1 radio.
"Two were killed, but there is one who is now on the run," he said. "In any case, he will not get very far."
The gunmen killed 21 people in an attack Wednesday at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, all but one of them foreign tourists.
This was the first acknowledgement that there were three attackers.
Two others, who were killed by security forces, were identified as Jabeur Khachnaoui and Yassine Labidi.
Responsibility for the massacre was claimed by the Islamic State group, an insurgency seeking to establish an Islamist government or caliphate across Iraq, Syria and other parts of the Muslim world.
"There were failures" which meant that "the police and intelligence were not systematic enough to ensure the safety of the museum", President Essebsi told Paris Match magazine in an interview published Saturday.
Deputy speaker Abdelfattah Mourou had told AFP Friday that guards supposed to be protecting the museum and the nearby parliament were having coffee at the time of the assault.
The victims were all tourists, apart from a Tunisian policeman.
Among the deceased were four Italians, three Japanese, three French, two Spaniards, a Colombian, an Australian-Colombian, a British woman, a Belgian woman, three Poles and a Russian.
Among those inside the museum during the attack were Spanish tourists Juan Carlos Sanchez and his wife Cristina Rubio. The couple hid in a storeroom overnight during the attack.
"As we came out of the museum, we saw that they were shooting at people around the entrance. One person was killed and we realised what was happening so we went to hide," Juan Carlos Sanchez said in a brief interview with Spanish national television.
"We hid in a storeroom and stayed there, listening to everything that was happening and waiting for it to be over," Mr Sanchez said.
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