Police arrest 4 'terrorist elements' in raid on Tunisian shop

Tunisian national security agents arrested four suspected terrorists in a raid in Sidi Bouzid governorate, the interior ministry said Thursday. The ministry said the suspects were members of a banned organization, Tunisia Live reported. During a raid on a shop, police seized a Kalashnikov rifle, ammunition, explosive material and equipment for making bombs, the ministry said. Express FM said a police officer was wounded by gunfire during the raid, but the ministry statement did not mention any casualties. The revolution that ousted former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali began in Sidi Bouzid in 2011 after a street vendor set himself on fire to protest a local official confiscating his wares.