Tunisian police chiefs fired after museum attack

Six police commanders have been fired in Tunisia after last week's militant attack on the national museum, which left 20 tourists dead.

The head of tourist security, an intelligence brigade chief, the Tunis district police chief, the traffic police commander, a Bardo security chief and a commander for the capital's Sidi Bachir district were sacked by the Tunisian prime minister.

"Prime Minister Habib Essid visited the Bardo Museum yesterday ... and took note of several security failures there," the premier's office spokesman said.

Militant gunmen killed 20 foreign tourists last Wednesday as they got off buses at the Bardo Museum, inside the parliament compound that is normally heavily guarded.

It was the worst attack in more than a decade in Tunisia.

Two gunmen were shot dead at the scene and authorities have so far arrested more than 20 people, ten of whom officials believe were directly involved in the attack.

Some had recently returned from fighting for Islamist militant groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed that their supporters carried out the attack.

However, a local al-Qaeda affiliated group, known as Okba Ibn Nafaa, has also published details and comments on the assault.

Tunisia has been largely spared the violent aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.

Secular and Islamist parties there have overcome their divisions to compromise, approve a new constitution and hold free elections.

Authorities say the two gunmen killed in the Bardo attack had trained in jihadi camps in Libya.

More than 3,000 Tunisians left to fight in Syria and Iraq, and hundreds have returned.

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