More pictures have emerged after gunmen feared to be from ISIS killed at
least 37 people in an attack on two hotels at a popular holiday
destination in Tunisia.
The attack took place at the Al-Qantawi resort in the city of
Sousse, around 140 kilometres south of the capital Tunis on the
Mediterranean coast.Local media have reported that those killed were
mostly German and British tourists.
British tourist Gary Pine told Sky News
'We thought fire crackers were going off but you could see quite quickly
what was going on.'There was a mass exodus off the beach. My son was in
the sea at the time and myself and my wife were shouting at him to get
out and as he ran up he said I've just saw someone get shot.One attacker
opened fire with a Kalashnikov on tourists and Tunisians on the beach
of the hotel', said a hotel worker at the site.'It was just one
attacker. He was a young guy dressed in shorts like he was a tourist
himself.'
Elizabeth O'Brien, an Irish woman on holiday with her two sons in the
resort, described how she grabbed her children and ran for their lives
when they heard gunfire erupting from one of the hotels.
She said: '
We were on the beach. My sons were in the sea and I just got out of the
sea. 'It was about 12 o'clock and I just looked up about 500 metres from
me and I saw a (hot air) balloon collapse down, then rapid firing, then
I saw two of the people who were going to go up in the balloon start to
run towards me - because I thought it was fireworks.'So, I thought "oh
my God, it sounds like gunfire", so I just ran to the sea to my children
and grabbed our things and as I was running towards the hotel.'The
waiters and the security on the beach started saying "run, run run!" and
we just ran to our room, which is like a little bungalow. So we are
actually trapped in our room.'
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