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Dozens killed in Tunisia beach resort attack
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88m3
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Scores killed in terror attack on Tunisian beach resort
Latest update : 2015-06-26
Gunmen killed at least 37 people, including foreign tourists, spraying them with bullets at a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, officials said.
Security forces quickly responded and killed one of the gunmen who held a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but another attacker fled and was being pursued by police, said interior ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui.
"A terrorist infiltrated the buildings from the back before opening fire on the residents of the hotel, including foreigners and Tunisians," Aroui said.
The attack, which took place during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, was the second major attack in the North African country this year. Tunisia has been on high alert since March when Islamist militant gunmen attacked the Bardo museum in Tunis, killing 22 people.
Tunisia, which has been hailed as a model of democratic transition since its 2011 'Arab Spring' uprising, is one of the most secular countries in the Arab world. Its beach resorts and nightclubs on the Mediterranean are popular with European visitors.
In an address from the Elysée Palace on Friday, French President François Hollande said he could not confirm if there were French nationals among the victims of the terror attack.
No one immediately claimed the attack. But Islamist jihadists have targeted North African tourist sites before, seeing them as legitimate targets because of their open Western lifestyles and tolerance of alcohol.
Several thousand Tunisian fighters have left for Syria, Iraq and neighbouring Libya, where some have set up jihadist training camps and promised to return to attack their homeland.
At least five British nationals were killed in the attack, the British Foreign Secretary has confirmed, warning that the number could rise.
Irish, German and Belgian nationals were also among those killed in Friday’s attack, the Tunisian health ministry said in a statement.
Photographs circulating on social media showed Western tourists lying face down near sun loungers.
'Run, run, run!'
Irishwoman Elizabeth O'Brien, who was staying at a neighbouring hotel with her two sons, said there was panic on the beach when gunfire erupted.
"I honestly thought it was fireworks and then when I saw people running... I thought, my God, it is shooting," she told Irish radio station RTE. "The waiters and the security on the beach started to say 'Run, run, run!'"
British tourist Gary Pine said he was on the beach and heard what "we thought was firecrackers going off" 100 yards away, followed by an explosion from the next hotel complex.
"There was a mass exodus off the beach," he told Sky News.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150626-tunisia-deadly-shooting-beach-resort-gunmen
Latest update : 2015-06-26
Gunmen killed at least 37 people, including foreign tourists, spraying them with bullets at a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, officials said.
Security forces quickly responded and killed one of the gunmen who held a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but another attacker fled and was being pursued by police, said interior ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui.
"A terrorist infiltrated the buildings from the back before opening fire on the residents of the hotel, including foreigners and Tunisians," Aroui said.
The attack, which took place during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, was the second major attack in the North African country this year. Tunisia has been on high alert since March when Islamist militant gunmen attacked the Bardo museum in Tunis, killing 22 people.
Tunisia, which has been hailed as a model of democratic transition since its 2011 'Arab Spring' uprising, is one of the most secular countries in the Arab world. Its beach resorts and nightclubs on the Mediterranean are popular with European visitors.
In an address from the Elysée Palace on Friday, French President François Hollande said he could not confirm if there were French nationals among the victims of the terror attack.
No one immediately claimed the attack. But Islamist jihadists have targeted North African tourist sites before, seeing them as legitimate targets because of their open Western lifestyles and tolerance of alcohol.
Several thousand Tunisian fighters have left for Syria, Iraq and neighbouring Libya, where some have set up jihadist training camps and promised to return to attack their homeland.
At least five British nationals were killed in the attack, the British Foreign Secretary has confirmed, warning that the number could rise.
Irish, German and Belgian nationals were also among those killed in Friday’s attack, the Tunisian health ministry said in a statement.
Photographs circulating on social media showed Western tourists lying face down near sun loungers.
'Run, run, run!'
Irishwoman Elizabeth O'Brien, who was staying at a neighbouring hotel with her two sons, said there was panic on the beach when gunfire erupted.
"I honestly thought it was fireworks and then when I saw people running... I thought, my God, it is shooting," she told Irish radio station RTE. "The waiters and the security on the beach started to say 'Run, run, run!'"
British tourist Gary Pine said he was on the beach and heard what "we thought was firecrackers going off" 100 yards away, followed by an explosion from the next hotel complex.
"There was a mass exodus off the beach," he told Sky News.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150626-tunisia-deadly-shooting-beach-resort-gunmen
Trajan
Veteran
I pulled the plug on a vacation to Tunisia for this month after the Bardo Museum attacks. ISIS have too much pull in North Africa for my liking and a lot of Tunisians went to go and fight in Syria.
Areas and attractions full of tourists in Tunisia are too high risk imo.
Looks like I was right. Thank God
R.I.P to the dead. Could've been any of us.
I just wanted to be in Carthage
Their tourism sector and by extension their economy is about to take a huge hit.
Areas and attractions full of tourists in Tunisia are too high risk imo.
Looks like I was right. Thank God
R.I.P to the dead. Could've been any of us.
I just wanted to be in Carthage
Their tourism sector and by extension their economy is about to take a huge hit.
did bali recover after that bombing?
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Never been to Tunisia
We had an attack in France too yesterday, "just" one dead.
Algeria?
Right. Seems like a lone wolf thing of opportunity. Did you hear anything else about it yet?
Grand Conde
Superstar
Very much so, yes.
Not really comparable situations however. Bali's reputation as a tourist hotspot has long been cemented.
ejthompson23
Vagabon
How many of you c00ns gonna keep defending Islam?
joeychizzle
光復香港，時代革命
I am literally immune to this shyt now. I've seen enough Muslim acts of terror to stop caring. I'm still not biased enough to blindly assume that these fakkits represent all Muslims but I literally don't care if people shyt on Islam anymore. Just.. fukk it. Don't care. I just check the location, and number of deaths, shrug, attribute it to belief stifling all reason, and continue my day.
Big Daddy
Fight or die fighting, no surrender.
is their ex president still living in asylum in Italy
Didn't Ben Ali go to Saudi Arabia? IDK if he's still there tho.
