Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine
TUNIS, May 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An explosion rocked the house of Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine on Monday, causing slight burns to the minister’s wife, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Preliminary investigations indicated that the explosion was caused by a natural gas leak, and some local media said Charfeddine was at home during the explosion.
“The explosion occurred on Monday morning at around 7:00 a.m. local time,” it said.
The Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company announced that the explosion that occurred in the home of the Minister of Interior, Tawfiq Sharafeddine, was caused by a recent partial gas leak, which caused material damage to part of the house and minor injury to the wife of the Minister of the Interior.
Later, the Ministry of the Interior issued a statement confirming that, “According to preliminary investigations conducted by the technical and scientific police, it was proven that there was a partial gas leak in the office of the Minister of Interior in Tunis, and the most likely cause of the explosion occurred on Monday, May 16, 2022, around seven o’clock. In the morning, which resulted in separate burns to a member of his family and some material damage.”
On March 26, Tunisian security forces revealed that they had foiled a planned stabbing attack on Charfeddine and dismantled the concerned terrorist cell.
The terrorists had planned to attack Charfeddine during his visit to the southeastern Tunisia in early January of this year. — NNN-AGENCIES