India condemns Tunisia terror attack, calls for global action

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee have condemned the terror attack in Tunisia and underlined that New Delhi stands firmly with the people of the country in this hour of attack.

“Attack in Tunisia is appalling & condemnable. We stand firmly with the people of Tunisia in this hour of grief and pray normalcy return soon,” Mr Modi said via twitter.

Mr Mukherjee said, Such senseless act must be met with determination and collective action by the world community.”

Gunmen in Tunisia killed at least 17 tourists of various nationalities, including two Tunisians, after they stormed into one of Tunisia’s popular tourist destinations, the Bardo national museum.

The gunmen dressed in military uniform opened fired on tourists as soon as they got off a bus, and then chased them inside the museum killing and wounding many.

Among the dead were five Japanese, four Italians, a Colombian mother and child and one each from France, Poland, Australia and Spain.

The Tunisian government announced that 42 people were wounded, which included citizens of Japan, Italy, France, Italy and South Africa.

The attack on foreigners in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, appeared to be the worst since the al-Qaeda suicide bombing killing 14 Germans, two French and five Tunisian on the Island of Djerba in 2002.

The brutal militant group, The Islamic State, is suspected to have links with the Tunisia attack, which has once again underlined the trans-national nature of terrorism, fuelled by radical Islamist groups and ideologies.

The U.N. Security Council has condemned the Bardo museum terror spree, saying that no terrorist action can reverse the path of Tunisia toward democracy. In a statement on March 18, the UNSC extended its condolences to the families of the victims, the government of Tunisia and the governments who have lost citizens in the attack.

The council also “underlined the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice.”

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