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Thursday 17 Sep 2015 - 12:19 Makkah mean time-4-12-1436
Tunis (IINA) – Tunisian authorities in Tunisia have cashiered 110 members of the security forces for suspected links to extremist groups, the interior ministry's spokesman said Wednesday.
Those cashiered belonged to "different corps - police, national guard, the army, customs," said Walid Louguini, without saying when the action took place, AFP reported.
Their sacking "is linked... to very serious suspicions of membership in terrorist organizations or sympathy toward them," Louguini said, adding that they were the result of investigations dating to the beginning of the year.
Senior ministry official Taoufik Bouaoun told private Radio Med on Monday that "five or six" members of the security forces had been arrested for "direct links" with smuggling or terrorism.
Bouaoun said that since he joined the ministry after last November's elections, it was discovered that certain appointments had not been subjected to proper security clearances.
Two senior politicians and dozens of members of the security forces have been killed over the past four years, and 59 foreign tourists were shot dead in two attacks this year.
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