Tunisia announced Friday the closure of its main Tunis-Carthage international airport to Libyan planes as part of security measures since a suicide bombing in the capital. "We face a dangerous situation. We have taken a number of security measures," Transport Minister Mahmoud Ben Romdhane told Mosaique FM radio. He said that flights from war-wracked Libya would only be authorised to land in Sfax, 270 kilometres (165 miles) south-east of Tunis.
Tunisair suspended its service to Libya in August, but Libyan carriers fly between the two North African neighbours. Tunisia on November 25 closed its border with Libya, a hotbed of Islamist unrest, a day after a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Tunis claimed by Islamic State jihadists. The interior ministry said the explosive used in the attack that killed 12 presidential guards was the same used to make suicide belts illegally brought from Libya and seized last year.
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