TUNIS: Tunisian police have arrested two suspected militants planning suicide attacks in the capital Tunis, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, 10 days after a suicide bombing killed 12 presidential guards.

“Security forces arrested two extremists planning to carry out suicide attacks in the capital, including one in Habib Bourguiba Avenue,” the ministry said in statement.

Habib Bourguiba Avenue is the capital’s main thoroughfare and is crowded with shops and cafes, as well as being the location of the Interior Ministry.

Several thousand Tunisians are fighting with Daesh in Iraq and Syria. The gunmen who targeted foreign tourists in attacks on the beach resort of Sousse and Tunis’s Bardo Museum this year are all believed to have trained at militant camps in Libya.