TUNIS: Tunisian troops seized arms and documents bearing the symbol of Daesh from two cars near the Libyan border, as security tightened following two major attacks this year, officials said on Thursday.

“Troops seized 10 Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades, explosives, Libyan telephones cards and documents” in Wednesday’s incident, an official in Tunisia’s Interior Ministry told Reuters.

The vehicles themselves were rigged as car bombs. The cars were dismantled, the official said.

In March, gunmen killed 21 tourists in an attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, and 38 foreigners were killed in an assault on a Sousse beach hotel in June. Daesh claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Last month, Tunisian authorities warned of possible car bombings in Tunis and banned traffic in parts of the city after getting intelligence reports.

Tunisia’s government last July also started building a wall along its border with Libya to stop militants slipping across the frontier from training camps in Libya, where Daesh has gained ground in the country’s chaos.

Four years after its uprising, Tunisia has a new constitution, free elections and a coalition government with secular and extremist parties.