DOHA (Al Jazeera): Tunisia has announced it is closing its land border with war-torn Libya for 15 days after a deadly bus bombing killed at least 15 people on a presidential guard bus in Tunis.

The National Security Council, headed by President Beji Caid Essebsi, decided to close the frontier from midnight on Wednesday with “reinforced surveillance of maritime borders and in airports,” a statement said.

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