Tunis Open cancelled after terror attack

AFP News

27 March 2015 at 4:13 pm

A member of the Tunisian security forces stands guard outside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 24, 2015, during an official ceremony honouring the 21 people killed in last week's jihadist attack on foreign tourists

Next month's Tunis Open tennis tournament has been cancelled in the wake of the recent terrorist attack in the Tunisian capital, the organisers announced on Friday. The Tunis Tennis Club said on its website it was an "ATP decision to cancel the 2015 Tunis Open with regard to the recent events at the Bardo Museum". On March 18, gunmen attacked the celebrated Bardo Museum in the city, killing 20 tourists and one police officer. The tournament, part of the second-tier Challenger Tour, was also cancelled in 2011 in the wake of the Tunisian uprising which sparked the so-called Arab Spring unrest.