More pictures have emerged after gunmen feared to be from ISIS killed at least 28 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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