Seven foreign tourists among eight shot dead in Tunisia museum attack: Up to 30 more held hostage by three Islamist gunmen

Tunisian security forces have surrounded a group of militants holding hostages inside the country's leading museum after they shot dead at least eight people today. The country's parliament, which sits adjacent to the country's Bardo Museum, was today filled with leading politicians and was swiftly evacuated after shooting broke out. It is believed several hundred people may have fled the museum, while another 20 - 30 remain as hostages with three shooters in control of the building in the capital of Tunis. Chilling pictures, reportedly inside the building were hostages were being held were posted on Twitter, center, while soldiers swarmed the building, left, and evacuated hundreds. Mohamed Ali Aroui, an Interior Ministry spokesman who detailed the deaths at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, called the attackers Islamists in remarks on national radio.