Two terrorists were killed in a military operation that has been ongoing for three days on the heights of Kasserine, said Spokesman for the Tunisian Ministry of Defense, Lt.-Col. Belhassen Oueslati.
They are the so-called Hazem Ben Habib Ouertani and Fethi Ben Abdallah Ben Hassine Khélifi, he told TAP national news agency on Tuesday.
The military operation was conducted by special forces brigades of the National Army that spotted the places where the terrorists were holed up.
After a fire-fight with this group, the special forces killed two of them, said Oueslati, noting that two Kalashnikov and Steyr type rifles were seized.
A major search operation is carried out on the heights of Kasserine, he added.