BEN GUERDANE, TUNISIA: Fresh violence erupted Wednesday at Ben Guerdane near Tunisia’s border with Libya, as a “martyrs’” funeral was held and amid nationwide mourning after a terror assault killed more than 50 people.

The defense and interior ministries said two “terrorists” and a soldier were killed in a firefight in the Oued Rbyaa area.

They said the confrontation came after terrorists on the run raided a building site in search of provisions and stole food from workers there.

A civilian was also wounded, a joint statement said.

The clash came as thousands of mourners gathered in Ben Guerdane, near the border with conflict-ridden Libya, for the funerals of people killed in Monday’s full-blown terror attack on the town of some 60,000 residents.

Schools across the country held a minute’s silence in memory of the seven civilians and 12 members of the security forces killed in the assault that the authorities blamed on Daesh.

Since the dawn attack on an army barracks and police and National Guard posts in Ben Guerdane, the number of dead militants has risen to 45 after another seven were killed overnight.

Security forces have flooded Ben Guerdane over the past two days as mopping up operations continue and an overnight curfew was imposed on residents.

In Ben Guerdane on Wednesday morning, thousands of residents attended the funerals of some of the victims, an AFP correspondent and a security source said.

The security source said the bodies of 11 people were buried in the town cemetery in an area newly designated “The Martyrs of March 7.”