All Britons injured in Tunisia attack to return home within 24 hours
LONDON — The UK government has announced that all British nationals injured in Friday’s Tunisia terror attack will be returned home to the UK within 24 hours.
It is understood that at least 30 of the 38 people killed in the tourist resort of Sousse were British, but so far only 18 have been formally identified. A gunman, named as 23 year old Seifeddine Rezgui, shot at tourists on the beach before entering a hotel lobby where he detonated explosives. ISIS claimed credit for the attack, along with a Shiite mosque bombing in Kuwait and a beheading in France on the same day.
The attacks occurred a day after a car bomb attack in the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani launched an ISIS offensive that killed at least 200 people.
"It is with great sadness that I have to tell the House that we know now of at least 18 British nationals that have been killed, with more injured with the death toll likely to rise still further," UK Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament in a Monday address on the Tunisia attack.
On Friday, July 3, the UK will observe a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the attack.
In the above video, Natalie Powell reports for Rudaw from London on the latest reactions to the Sousse massacre.