The president of Tunisia offered his sympathy to victims of the April 11 blast at a synagogue. Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali did not refer to the possible causes of the crash, but Tunisia’s government acknowledged that investigators were now pursuing other leads after initially labeling the blast at the Ghriba Synagogue a “tragic accident.”
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