Eight people were sentenced to death by a Tunisian court for a suicide bombing in November 2015 which killed 12 presidential guards and wounded 20 others, the deputy public prosecutor Mohsen Dali said.

Dali said that two other people were sentenced to 10 years and life imprisonment respectively for the incident which occurred in the capital Tunis and ISIS claimed responsibility for.

"The court issued the death sentence against eight people accused of participating in the attack against the presidential guards' bus." Dali told AFP.

Dali added that the offenders were all found guilty of voluntary murder and belonging to terrorist groups.

No details about the identities of the offenders, of whom only four appeared in person at the trial, was given.

A ban on carrying out capital punishment in Tunisia has been in force since 1991.

Tunisia has been under a state of emergency since November 24, 2015, following the suicide bombing attack.

Earlier that year, two other terrorist attacks were staged with ISIS claiming responsibility for them.

In March, an attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis killed 21 tourists and a security guard while another attack at the coastal resort of Sousse killed 38 tourists.

In February last year, seven people were sentenced to life in prison for both the attacks.

Tunisia has endured an increase in extremist activities in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011, with attacks killing dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists.