Tunisia declares state of emergency over beach massacre

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has declared a state of emergency following last week's beach massacre that killed 38 foreign tourists.

The country's emergency law temporarily gives the government more executive flexibility, hands the army and police more authority, and restricts certain rights such as the right to public assembly.

An earlier state of emergency was lifted in March 2014, having been in force since longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in a 2011 revolution.

Tunisia has faced a surge in violence since the revolution and dozens of police and soldiers have been killed since then and the June 26 beach attack in the town of Sousse was the second deadly attack in three months, following a shooting rampage at its national museum in the capital Tunis that killed 22 people.