(CNN)Two men dressed in military garb went into a museum in Tunisia's capital Wednesday and opened fire, killing eight people and taking hostages, authorities said.

Ambulances removed people from the Bardo Museum in Tunis as helicopters flew overhead, journalist Yasmine Ryan told CNN from the scene. Some gunfire could be heard, and video showed men and women running away for safety.

Mohamed Ali Aroui, an Interior Ministry spokesman who detailed the deaths at the Tunisian museum, called the attackers Islamists in remarks on national radio. The Interior Ministry said there was a hostage situation.

While Tunisia hasn't had the same level of violence as other nations in the region that were part of the Arab Spring uprising, like neighboring Libya, it hasn't been immune to it either.

The government, for example, has been battling a jihadist presence in the Chaambi Mountains.

And in February, the country's Interior Ministry announced the arrests of about 100 alleged extremists, and published a video allegedly showing the group possessed a formula for making explosives and a photograph of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Up to 3,000 Tunisians are believed to have traveled to Iraq and Syria, more than other country, according to the International Centre fort the Study of Radicalization in london

Jihadist at it again. Islam truely a religion of peace..