Tunisia's president says third attacker at Brado museum still "on the run"

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi on Sunday said a third gunman involved in the deadly attack at Tunis national museum which killed 23 people was still on the run.

Speaking to Europe 1 radio, iTELE and Le Monde newspaper, Essebsi said "for sure there were three because they have been identified and filmed on surveillance cameras."

"There are two who were executed and one who is on the run somewhere. But in any case, he won't get far," he added.

Identified as Jabeur Khachnaoui and Yassine Laabidi, the two gunmen in their twenties, stormed Tunisian national museum in Bardo near the Parliament last Wednesday.

They killed 23 people among them 20 tourists from Japan, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and Colombia in the country's worst assault targeting foreigners since 2002 when an al-Qaeda linked suicide bomber blew himself in a synagogue in the southern island of Djerba, killing 21 tourists of whom many were German.

Essebsi also announced a monument on which all the victims' names were written would be built to commemorate the dead and a nationwide march to denounce terrorism was scheduled for the end of March.

"Terrorism in Tunisia has no roots. It is a regional terrorism. We're fighting against it and things are better now. But (the battle) must involve all countries in the region. Everyone is concerned. There is no country which is safe from terrorism ," Tunisian president stressed.

About 4,000 "desperate young unemployed" Tunisians have joined militants in Iraq, Syria and Libya during the last three years with 500 of them returned home and posed threat to the country's fragile stability, according to Essebsi. Endit