Two Tunisia police shot, wounded in flashpoint town

Two Tunisian police were wounded in an exchange of gunfire with presumed Salafists on Thursday in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of the country’s uprising two years ago, a medical source said.

The shooting took place when police after a chase cornered four armed men in a mosque in the centre of the town, which is a stronghold of the ultra-conservative Muslim group blamed for unrest around the country.