TUNISIA’s capital was attacked by two suicide bombers, including one near the French embassy.

The first attacker targeted a police patrol car near the embassy at around 11am, the authorities said.

Local media said the second explosion happened soon after, in the car park of the government anti-terrorism agency.

Body parts from the suicide bomber were seen lying beside a pockmarked vehicle on the corner of Charles de Gaulle Street in central Tunis.

It was around 100 yards from France’s embassy and also close to the Palmarium shopping centre which was targeted by a female suicide bomber in October.

Two police officers and three civilians were wounded, the Interior Ministry said. It was not immediately known who was behind the attack.

Tunisia has been battling militant groups operating in remote areas near the border with Algeria since an uprising overthrew autocratic leader Zine Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.

Habib Bourguiba Avenue is in the heart of the commercial and tourist district and is lined with western hotels and a theatre.

British tourists have only recently started returning to Tunisia after the Sousse beach massacre and Bardo museum shooting in 2015.