ongoing. eight people shot and killed nbc news confirmed, and seven of those people were actually foreign tourists. two gunmen involved in this and we re hearing one of those gunman has been captured. this is at the bardo museum as you said. it s right next to the parliament building which was evacuated after this happened. there s no nationalities released right now as to who exactly these potential hostages or who these victims are. they re not saying at the hoemt. moment. this museum is a popular tourist spot, home to a number of famous roman mosaics. the u.s. state department issued something of a warning to u.s. citizens traveling in tunisia telling them to take caution, but no warning or no message for them not to go there. now, no word right now on who is responsible for this attack but tunisia has struggled with islamic extremists in the past even issues with isis. so far, though, nobody is taking
clothing at the museum next door to parliament. parliament was evacuated when it happened. you can see in this dramatic video people are running from something, it is unclear what s going on whether or not the hostage situation is still on-going. those pictures seem to show quite a few hostages. they confirmed that eight people are dead. officials confirm eight are dead. one tunesian 7 others not, foreign tourists unclear at this time who and where the tourists are from. they re not confirming any nationality. the museum is one of the most popular tourist spots in tunesia, has one of the biggest collection of roman mosaics. it is a newly democratic country, overthrew their authoritarian president in 2011. they struggled with islamic extremists, specifically with isis. they say as many as 3,000 tunesians have gone to join the islamic state. last month about 30 suspected