Gunmen entered the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on Wednesday and killed eight, taking several hostages, the New York Times reports. Reports say the unnamed gunmen were wearing military uniforms.
The gunmen killed seven tourists and one Tunisian in the raid, and the nearby Parliament museum was evacuated after the attack. According to officials, six others were injured in the shooting. Two gunmen, the BBC reports, are "holed up inside the museum," having taken an undetermined number of hostages.
The museum has now been surrounded by security forces, Reuters reports. The nearly 200 other people in the museum at the time of the shooting were reportedly able to escape.
While the identity and the motive of the shooters has not been discovered, the BBC reports that a meeting regarding anti-terrorism laws was occurring in the Parliament building.
