On 18 March 2015 , 24 people were killed in a terrorist attack when three terrorists in civil uniform attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis , and took hostages . Twenty-one people , mostly European tourists , were killed at the scene , while an additional victim died ten days later . Around fifty others were injured . This attack took place after the famous Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris where many journalists were killed Two of the gunmen , Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui , were killed by police , while the third attacker is currently at large . Police treated the event as a terrorist attack . It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Tunisian history ; surpassing the 2002 Ghriba synagogue bombing , which killed twenty-one people , most of whom were also European tourists , and injured more than thirty others
Ghriba synagogue bombing
Ghriba synagogue bombing
Bardo National Museum (Tunis)