A woman killed herself and her baby in an anti-terrorist operation in the mountainous region of Tunisia near the Algerian border.
Security forces initially killed an Islamist extremist there, as the Interior Ministry announced.
Thereupon the alleged suicide bomber, who does not come from Tunisia, detonated an explosives belt and killed her baby in the process.
Your second daughter survived.
In a second operation, a high-ranking extremist whose group had connections to the terrorist militia "Islamic State" was killed.
Tunisia is one of the few countries in the region where the 2011 revolutions did not result in civil war or widespread unrest.
Nevertheless, an estimated 3,000 Tunisians are said to have joined IS or other jihadist groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
After serious attacks in 2015, the security situation in the country, which is popular with tourists, improved again.
In March just under a year ago, a police officer died when two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the US embassy in Tunis.
In March 2015, 21 tourists and one police officer were killed when gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in the capital.
Three months later, 38 tourists, including two Germans, were killed in an attack on a hotel in the coastal city of Sousse.
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