The two gunmen who stormed Tunisia's national museum and killed 21 people before being shot dead themselves were carrying "terrible explosives", the country's president said Thursday, praising security forces for preventing further bloodshed.
"We found terrible explosives on those people that they did not have time" to use, President Beji Caid Essebsi told France's TF1 television, adding that the police response had prevented "a catastrophe".