2014 Chaambi Mountains attack | |
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Part of Chaambi Operations | |
Location | Chaambi Mountains, Tunisia |
Date | 16 July 2014 |
Target | Tunisian Armed Forces |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapons | Automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades |
Deaths | 15 soldiers 1 militant |
Injured | 25 |
Perpetrators | Uqba Ibn Nafi Battalion |
On 16 July 2014, militants from the Uqba Ibn Nafi Battalion attacked two checkpoints in the Chaambi Mountains killing fourteen Tunisian soldiers and injuring twenty-five.[1] The 2014 Chaambi Mountains attack is the deadliest militant skirmish involving the Tunisian Armed Forces since their independence in 1956.[2]