A Tunisian suicide bomber who blew herself up in the country’s capital in October had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), Tunisia interior minister confirmed on Monday, November 19.
The female bomber who was identified as Mna Guebla detonated a bomb near police cars in central Tunis on a busy upmarket on October 29, killing herself and wounding scores.
Tunisia intelligence intercepts show that Guebla had used “secret communication channels” to make contact with “terrorist leaders inside and outside the country” and to swear allegiance to ISIS.
Reports indicate that the 30-year-old graduate had received online instructions on bomb-making from terrorists based in the country’s mountainous east, the epicenter of a long-running terrorist campaign targeting Tunisian security forces.
Police sources say that Guebla appeared to have used a homemade bomb rather than an explosive belt.
Guebla was living in a marginalized rural area in the eastern Mahdia region and was studying for a doctorate. She used to spend hours on the computer locked in her room, but her family said there was no indication she was being radicalized. After her death, police found quantity of raw materials used to make explosives at her house.
According to Local media, her distraught family refused to receive her body and did not attend her burial.
