Tunisian authorities said two "terrorists" were killed close to the southern town of Ben Guerdane.
Tunisian authorities said two "terrorists" were killed Saturday close to the southern town of Ben Guerdane near the border with Libya where jihadists mounted a deadly assault earlier this month.
Four people were also wounded in clashes -- three civilians and a member of the security forces, the sources said.
"During security and military operations in Ben Guerdane, security forces and the army killed two terrorists holed up in a house... in the vicinity of the town," the defence and interior ministries said in a joint statement.
It described "an exchange of fire between terrorists and security forces who were preparing to search the house," adding that three civilians were wounded by shrapnel and a member of the National Guard was wounded in the foot.
On March 7, dozens of jihadists mounted a dawn assault on security installations in Ben Guerdane, which is near the border with unrest-plagued Libya.
Thirteen members of the security forces and seven civilians were killed in those attacks, according to official figures.
There was no claim of responsibility for the March 7 attacks, but the authorities blamed them on the ISIS.
In the west, meanwhile, the army fought militants in clashes that left a soldier wounded, the defence ministry said.
"A soldier was wounded during an exchange of fire Saturday morning between army units and a terrorist group at Jabal Samama" in the Kasserine region, Lieutenant Colonel Belhassen Oueslati told AFP.
Separately, the interior ministry said three gunmen had opened fire overnight on a police outpost along the border with Algeria.
"There was an exchange of fire between security forces at the post and terrorists before the attackers fled," a ministry statement said, adding that no one was injured.
Tunisia has failed to curb a rise in extremism since the 2011 revolution that ousted longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Last year, ISIS claimed attacks on the Bardo museum in Tunis and a popular resort hotel, killing 59 tourists in total, and the suicide bombing of a bus that killed 12 presidential guards.
Thousands of Tunisians have signed up to fight abroad with extremist groups.
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