New Delhi: Three major terror attacks in three countries within a span of a few hours shook the world on Friday. More than 50 people were killed in the attacks which took place in Tunisia, Kuwait and France.
Maximum casualties were reported from Tunisia where a terrorist disguised as a tourist opened fire at a hotel and killed 28 people.
Terrified tourists ran for cover after the terrorist opened fire. An explosion also rocked the Imperial Marhaba in Sousse resort town, 140 km south of the capital Tunis, before police shot the terrorist dead, witnesses and security officials said.
It was the second major attack in Tunisia in 2015 following the Islamist terror assault on Tunis Bardo museum when gunmen killed 21 foreign visitors.
No one immediately claimed the attack. But Islamist jihadists have attacked North African tourist sites before, seeing them as legitimate targets because of their open Western lifestyles and tolerance of alcohol.
A suicide bomber killed 25 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, the interior ministry said, the first attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting country.
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded 202 people according to the interior ministry, in the district of Sawaber in the eastern part of the Kuwaiti capital.
Islamic State named the bomber as Abu Suleiman al-Muwahed and said in a statement posted on social media that he had targeted a "temple of the rejectionists" - a term it generally uses to refer to Shi'ites, whom it regards as heretics.
In France, a decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found at a US gas company in the southeast after an assailant rammed a car into the premises, triggering an explosion. The attacker survived the blast and was arrested.
Referring to the other terror attacks in Kuwait and Tunisia, French President Francois Hollande called for nations to work together to combat security threats.
"There is no other link other than to say that terrorism is our common enemy," he said.
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