TUNISIA-SECURITY/BEACH VIDEO Amateur video shows aftermath of Tunisia attack

Record ID: 149136

  • Title: TUNISIA-SECURITY/BEACH VIDEO Amateur video shows aftermath of Tunisia attack
  • Date: 1st July 2015
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF BEACH / BODIES OF VICTIMS
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Tunisia
  • Country: Tunisia
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEVZGOOAD57JBE69X630V4GS2C
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL
    A video obtained by Reuters filmed by a local man last Friday (June 26) showed hotel workers running towards the gunman in the moments immediately after the attack on holidaymakers in a Sousse resort in Tunisia.
    The video features the sound of gunfire and an explosion and the gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui who was later shot and killed by police, stalking the beach.
    As the man filming the video walks along the beach, bodies of holidaymakers lie on sun loungers and on the sand.
    Later, the video shows local men running through the streets amid gunfire.
    Thirty Britons and eight other foreigners were killed last Friday, Tunisia's health ministry said on Wednesday (July 1), completing the last formal identification.
    The bloody massacre at the Sousse resort, claimed by Islamic State militants, was the worst such attack in Tunisia's modern history, delivering a blow to the vital tourist industry just as the North African state consolidates its new democracy.
    The health ministry said all 38 victims had been formally identified. They included 30 Britons, three Irish citizens, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national.
    Bodies of some of the British victims were flown home from Tunisia in a Royal Air Force plane.
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