TUNIS: A Tunisian policeman died Thursday a day after he was stabbed by an Islamist extremist outside parliament in a bustling part of the capital Tunis, the authorities said, reports AFP.

Commander Riadh Barrouta, who was knifed in the neck in Wednesday’s attack, “has died”, interior ministry spokesman Yasser Mesbah said.

A second officer was lightly wounded in the forehead in the early morning assault before the attacker in his mid-20s was quickly arrested.

After the attack, the interior ministry said the assailant had confessed to having adopted an “extremist” ideology three years ago.

“Killing them (police), he believes, is a form of jihad,” it said.

Prosecutors on Thursday said the man—an unemployed computer science graduate born in 1992 -- appeared to have acted alone and did not belong to any cell, but “intended to join terrorist groups” in neighbouring Libya.