The robbery took place at a bank branch in the southeastern Bou Mhel suburb of Tunis.

A police statement said initial evidence showed that it was likely that the two convicts from the jailbreak were involved in the bank heist.

Five prisoners the interior ministry said were serving sentences “related to terrorist cases” escaped from Mornaguia prison outside Tunis at dawn on Tuesday.

The five are considered “dangerous” and have affiliations with the jihadist groups Ansar al-Sharia and Al-Qaeda, the ministry said.

Among them is 44-year-old Ahmed al-Malki, nicknamed “Al-Somali”, who was serving 24 years on terrorism charges following the killings of opposition figures Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi.

The files on both killings remain open.

Belaid and Brahmi opposed the Ennahdha party, which dominated both parliament and the government for most of the past decade.

After the 2011 revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s aspiring democracy also saw a rise in jihadist groups.

Attacks by jihadists in Tunis and the city of Sousse in 2015 left tens of people dead, mostly tourists.