DHAKA: A firefight between security forces and suspected Islamists holed up in a building in a Tunis suburb has left one policeman and up to four militants dead.

Tunisia interior ministry said Tuesday, reports TDS.

The standoff, which began on Monday, was not yet over, a ministry spokesman told media, adding that so far a policeman and ‘between two and four terrorists’ had been killed.

BDST: 1648 HRS, FEB 04, 2014