Tunisian forces have killed nine men belonging to the country’s main terrorist group, which was accused of organizing the attack on its national museum, the interior ministry said Sunday.

Tunisian forces have killed nine men belonging to the country's main terrorist group, which was accused of organizing the attack on its national museum, the interior ministry said Sunday.

"Nine terrorists were killed last night (Saturday) in the mountains of Sidi Aich" in west-central Tunisia, ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AFP.

The men allegedly belonged to the Okba Ibn Nafaa brigade, which authorities have claimed was behind the attack on the Bardo Museum that left a Tunisian policeman and 21 foreign tourists dead.