DHAKA: At least 14 Tunisian troops were killed when militants attacked checkpoints in the remote Chaambi mountains.

The ministry of defence said on Thursday, raising the death toll, reports The Jerusalem Post.

The attack on Wednesday evening was the deadliest yet carried out by militants on Tunisia’s armed forces, who have been trying to flush out Islamist fighters hiding out in the mountain range near Algeria’s border.

BDST: 1538 HRS, JUL 17, 2014