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2015 Tunis barracks shooting

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Weapons
  
Gun Knife

Perpetrator
  
Mehdi Jemaii

Date
  
25 May 2015

Attack type
  
Mass murder

Non-fatal injuries
  
10

Motive
  
"Family problems"

Location
  
Tunis, Tunisia

Location
  
Tunisia

Deaths
  
8 (including the perpetrator)

Friendly fire shooting 7 soldiers killed in tunis barracks shooting by fellow soldier


On 25 May 2015, a mass murder took place at the Bouchoucha military base in Tunis. A Tunisian soldier, later identified as Corporal Mehdi Jemaii, who was forbidden from carrying weapons stabbed a soldier, then took his weapon, opened fire on soldiers, killing seven and wounding ten before he was shot dead.

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The army said Mehdi Jemaii had family problems. The shooting is not considered a terrorist attack.

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2015 Tunis barracks shooting Wikipedia