a 16, grazing his sheep in the hills when isis militants demanded his flock. he refused and they retaliated, she told us. they beheaded him and the sheep at the same time. they sent his head with his cousin who was with him. his mother tells us. she never saw the site. her family refused to let her look inside a plastic bag containing his head. isis has made it a home in the hills above their homestead. reporter: what should happen to the men who did this? i want to get rid of them, look for them one by one because they hurt me to deeply. while the country has made great strides toward democracy, the terror threat has grown. there was an attack at a museum. a few months later in june, they massacred terrorists in a resort town. in november, an isis suicide bomber killed 12 presidential guard in a bus explosion.
let s get to breaking news now out of tunisia. we re receiving reports of a bus explosion that killed at least 12 people in the capitalty of tunis. let s go to joe fryer in london monitoring the story in tunisia. joe? reporter: the president of tunisia declared a state of emergency and a curfew after what he s calling a terrorist attack. and a televised address, the president reportedly said the country at war with terrorism and associated press reporting 12 people killed and at least 16 injured in the attack. the president was not on the bus but officials say some type of explosion hit the vehicle carrying members of the presidential guard. that s an elite security force that only protects the president. it happened on a busy tree-lined street in rush hour in the capital city of tunis. still no official confirmation of whether it was a bomb or some other type of explosive and many shocked wandering how any attacker gets close enough to a bus that s filled with so much
john berman is getting ready to anchor new day. back to the deadly explosion in russia. at least 14 people are dead in this recent bus explosion. this coming a day after 17 people were killed at a railway station in the same city. so with the olympics just over a month away, do these explosions affect preparations? and how are terror concerns being addressed? diane magnay is in moscow this morning with the very latest. diana? reporter: hi. president putin has issued a command to heighten the security around russia and especially in the volgograd area where the explosion took place and two months ago another suicide bombing which killed six people on board a bus. it s just over 400 miles away from sochi where the games are
year! i-christine romans. that cold weather will wake you up at this hour. i m annika in for john berman. thank you for joining us on this monday, december 30th. a deadly terror bombing second time in as many days. 14 people are dead in this bus explosion and it happens a month before the winter olympics in sochi and putin has promised will be the safest olympics in history. it s clear two attacks in the same day in the same city shows how vulnerable this entire country is to terrorist attacks. you have sochi, very, very close to the extremely north caucuses
remain to be answered when it comes to that indeed. i want to thank you both, fred yang, we appreciate your insights. thank you. thank you. a bus explosion in the egyptian capital of cairo just one day after the country s government declared the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. what s the latest in the recent surge in violence? we ll have that up next. bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until they re full. so you can take them out less often. is sweatier and messier than my family on the field. so like the nfl i use tide. .because i m the equipment manager in this house. that s my tide. what s yours?