AK47 raised, Tunisian terrorist roams the streets looking for more victims after slaughtering 37 people - including five British tourists - before police shot him dead
- 'Just go, tell our children that their daddy loves them': Fiancee tells how hero father used his body to shield her from bullets as he was shot four times in the stomach by terror gunmen in Tunisian massacre
- Severed head left on a spike in terror attack at US-owned factory in France: Man decapitated and his body covered in Arabic writing by ISIS-linked terrorist who stormed in and injured dozens with 'gas bombs'
Gunmen have killed at least 27 people in an attack on two hotels
in the popular holiday destination of Sousse. Militants, feared to be
from ISIS, exchanged gunfire with security services on a beach packed
with British holidaymakers. The attack took place at the Al-Qantawi
resort in the city of Sousse, located 140 kilometres south of the
capital Tunis on the Mediterranean coast. Elizabeth O'Brien, an Irish
woman on holiday with her two sons in Sousse, described how she grabbed
her children and ran for their lives when they heard gunfire erupting
from one of the hotels. She said: '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.' British tourist Gary Pine said: 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.'
AK47 raised, Tunisian terrorist roams the streets looking for more victims after slaughtering 37 people - including five British tourists - before police shot him dead
- Gunmen have carried out a terrorist attack at holiday destination of Sousse
- One of the assailants was shot dead by police while another was arrested
- A British man injured in the onslaught used his body to save his fiancee
- An English teenager survived but saw his parents and grandmother killed
- Are you in Sousse? Email news@mailonline.co.uk or ring 00442036153475
The
final moments of a machine gun-wielding terrorist, who slaughtered 37
innocent people and injured another 36 on a beach in Tunisia today, have
been captured on camera.
AK47
in hand, he prowls the streets of Sousse, the popular resort town where
he opened fire on the beach packed with holidaymakers.
The assassin is believed to be Seifeddine Yacoubi, 23, an aviation student from the Tunisian city of Kairouan.
It
has emerged that a heroic British man, who was shot three times on the
beach during the attack, bravely used his body as a human shield to
protect his fiancee from being killed by the maniac gunman.
At
least five British tourists were killed during the bloody onslaught and
that number is expected to rise, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has
said. Lorna Carty from Ireland and 60-year-old James McGuire are thought
to be among those deceased.
It has also been reported that a 16-year-old British boy saw his parents and grandmothers gunned down.
The
massacre took place at about the same time as the bombing of a Shi'ite
mosque in Kuwait, where 25 worshippers were killed, and another attack
on a United States-owned factory in France in which a man was beheaded.
The
violence comes just days after ISIS urged its fanatic followers to
'make Ramadan a month of calamities' and rise up against the
'non-believers'.
Scroll down for videos
Terrorist: New images show the final
moments of a gunman (pictured) who caused havoc by opening fire on a
beach packed with holidaymakers in Tunisia today, before police shot him
dead
Predator: Assault rifle in hand, he
roams the streets of the popular holiday resort town Sousse where he and
possible accomplices killed at least 37 people today
Killer: Witnesses in Sousse said the
terrorists used a jet ski and a boat to access the beach and hid their
machine guns in parasols before indiscriminately opening fire on
civilians
Response: The corpse of the gunman,
who is believed to be a 23-year-old Seifeddine Yacoubi, was later
pictured on the side of the road
An officer speaks on his phone as he walks past the dead body of one of the gunmen on the ground
Shot: Emergency workers tend to one of the 36 people to be injured when a gunman who is believed to be called Seifeddine Yacoubi
Bodies lie on a beach in Sousse after gunmen opened fire on tourists at two hotels, killing at least 37
Massacre: At least 37 people were killed on the beach when gunmen opened fire on innocent sunbathers
Killed: A 16-year-old British boy saw his grandmother and parents gunned down by the men who killed 37 (one pictured)
Deceased: Tunisian lifeguards stand
next to a covered body in the resort town of Sousse, which has been
brought to its knees following a merciless terrorist attack
Armed police stand over the body of a victim shot dead on the beach by Islamist gunmen in Tunisia
Slaughtered: One of the 37 people
killed in the attack on the Tunisian beach lies underneath the towel as
horrified onlookers surround the scene
Bloodied: The blood-stained Sudoku
book and sandals of one of the people who was on the ill-fated beach
when the gunmen arrived on jet skis
Hero: British man Matthew James
(right), who was shot three times on the beach during the onslaught,
used his body as a human shield to protect his fiancee Sarah Wilson
(left) from being killed by the maniac gunman
Brave: Speaking from the hospital in
Tunisia Matthew's (pictured) fiance Sarah said: 'He took a bullet for
me... I owe him my life'
Murdered: Lorna Carty (pictured) from Ireland is thought to be one of the 37 people killed in Sousse
Onslaught: One of the survivors of the
massacre on a beach in Tunisia sits inside the Imperial Marhaba Hotel,
where a window was smashed by gunfire
Attack: A broken glass window of the Imperial Marhaba hotel is seen after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in Sousse
Share this article
Matthew
James, 30, from near Cardiff, is fighting for his life after being shot
four times in the stomach, his father-in law William Wilson told
MailOnline.
The
gas engineer was hit in the shoulder, chest and hip as the gunman
opened fire on the sunbeds as he lay next to fiancee Sarah Wilson.
Speaking
from the hospital in Tunisia, Sarah, 26, said: 'He took a bullet for
me. I owe him my life because he threw himself in front of me when the
shooting started. He was covered in blood from the shots but he just
told me to run away.
'He told me: "I love you babe. But just go - tell our children that their daddy loves them".
'It
was the bravest thing I've ever known. But I just had to leave him
under the sunbed because the shooting just kept on coming.
'I
ran back, past bodies on the beach to reach our hotel. It was chaos -
there was a body in the hotel pool and it was just full of blood.
'You
just can't explain how terrible it was. It was chaos with screaming and
gunshots. I'm just so glad Matthew is alive because so many other
people are dead.'
The
engaged couple from Pontypridd, South Wales, left their two children
Tegan, six, and Kaden, 14 months, at home with their family when they
jetted out to Sousse on June 21 for a two week break.
Zohra
Driss, owner of the Marhaba Imperial Hotel where the massacre took
place, said the gunman started firing from the beach before moving onto
the hotel swimming pool.
Around
15 young Tunisians are said to have been stopped from travelling to
Belgrade and 30 others banned from travelling to Istanbul for reasons
that were not disclosed.
Emotions running high: A woman launches a furious attack on a man apparently arrested over the shootings
The suspect gunman was attacked after reportedly being captured by the entrance to the Sousse motorway
Tunisian security forces escort a man through the streets of Sousse as he is attacked by a woman
Safety: Terrified tourists are holed
up inside the Imperial hotel in the resort town of Sousse, a popular
tourist destination 90 miles south of the Tunisian capita
Embrace: Scared tourists comfort one
another at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel having survived the terrifying gun
attack outside the beachside hotel
Contemplative: Tourists sit at the
terrace of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the
beachside hotel in Sousse
Alive: Survivors of the fatal beach attack retreat to the safety of the Imperial hotel in Sousse
Scared: Hand in hand, holidaymakers flee from the beach in Sousse where dozens were massacred today
In the dark: Holiday makers who survived the attack wait patiently at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel for news
Deserted: Sunbeds and parasols lie
abandoned at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel which was today struck down by a
horrendous terrorist attack
Interior
Ministry sources have denied reports that Tunisian nationals aged under
35 had been banned from leaving Tunisia, but admitted port and airport
controls had been strengthened and youngsters were being quizzed as part
of 'preventative measures'.
Ellie
Makin, from Ripon, who was on holiday with her friend Debbie Horsfall
from Huddersfield, said she saw a gunman pull a weapon from an umbrella
right next to them on the beach while they were sunbathing.
She
told ITV News: 'He was to the right of me because we were on the last
sun bed on the beach. All of a sudden I got up anyway and just happened
to look right and all I saw was a gun and an umbrella being dropped.
'Then
he started firing to the right hand side of us. If he had fired to the
left I don't know what would have happened, but we were very lucky.'
A
16-year-old British boy reportedly saw his parents and grandmother
slaughtered by the gunman and possible accomplices. The boy is being
treated for his injuries in hospital, according to a report by a
Tunisian radio station.
And
n Irish mother-of-two who was also gunned down was taking her husband
on holiday to help him recover from heart surgery, her family friends
have said.
Lorna
Carty from Robinstown, Co Meath - who has a son and a daughter - is
thought to have gone to the beach by herself when gunmen went on the
rampage.
A
friend of the nurse, who was in her 50s, said: 'Lorna rushed her
husband to hospital about a fortnight ago after he was getting pains in
his heart. He had to get stents in.
'They
went out to Tunisia to have a bit of a holiday after the operation.
Apparently [her husband] Declan stayed back in the room and she went to
the beach."
Her husband, a dairy farmer, is said to be uninjured but 'absolutely distraught'.
Staff
at the Clinic Les Oliviers in Sousse where many of the injured have
been taken said they were treating 13 British nationals. Other victims
who died included Tunisians, Germans and Belgians.
This picture shows the body of a
western holidaymaker lying dead on the beach in Sousse - empty sun
loungers can be seen behind him after people fled the area
This picture shows dead bodies on the beach following the attack on the beach today
Medics help an injured man in Sousse after gunmen stormed beaches of two hotels in the town of Sousse
Bloodied: Emergency workers rushed to get the injured people to a hospital
Line of fire: One of the women injured during the shooting at the beach in Sousse is taken to hospital
Hospital: Injured people are treated near the area where an attack took place in Sousse
Hurt: Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the resort town of Sousse
Witnesses
in Sousse said the terrorists used a jet ski and a boat to access the
beach and hid their machine guns in parasols while dressed in Western
clothing.
The body of one gunman lay at the scene with a Kalashnikov after he was shot in an exchange of gunfire with police.
A
second suspect was later arrested near a motorway. Pictures showed him
being punched in the face by a furious woman as he was marched through
the town by armed police.
A
Tunisian student, previously unknown to the security services, is the
prime suspect in the massacre, Tunisia's Secretary of State for
Security, Rafik Chelly revealed.
Mr
Chelly told Tunisia's Mosaique FM radio station: 'He is Tunisian, from
the Kairouan region [in the centre of Tunisia]. He is a student. He was
not known [to the security services].
'He
went to the beach, dressed like someone who is going for a swim and he
had a parasol [sun umbrella] inside which he had his weapon. After he
arrived at the beach, he used his weapon.'
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.
The hotels attacked are understood to be the Imperial Marhaba and the Soviva.
Ridha
Jegham, director general of the Royal Kenz Hotel opposite the Imperial
Marhaba Hotel, told a local radio station that the terrorists used a
jet ski and boat to access the beach.
He said he had passed the information to the country's Interior Minister.
British
tourist Gary Pine told Sky News said: 'We thought fire crackers were
going off but you could see quite quickly what was going on.
Police stand over one of the gunmen after the attack in the popular tourist destination today
'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.'
Tunisian troops stand guard outside the hotel in an armoured car after the terror attack
The
British Government's emergency Cobra committee met this afternoon
following the attack in Tunisia and another one in France where a man
was decapitated at a gas factory by terrorists carrying Islamist
banners.
Foreign
Secretary Philip Hammond said: 'I would like to offer my condolences to
the families and friends of the victims of these three shocking
terrorist incidents in Tunisia, Kuwait and France.
'The
situation on the ground [in Tunisia] is still somewhat confused and we
can't be sure exactly how many, but because of the nature of the
composition of the tourist population in this part of Tunisia we have to
assume that a high proportion of those killed and injured will have
been British.
'We
are working with the Tunisian authorities to understand what they are
doing in response to this incident and around the tightening of security
in this area.'
Prime
Minister David Cameron offered the country's 'solidarity in fighting
this evil of terrorism', adding: 'Our hearts go out to the victims of
appalling terrorist acts in France and Tunisia.'
Susan
Rickett, who was staying at the Palm Marina Hotel near Sousse, said:
'My sister was talking to someone who had seen some people shooting and
had shot someone on a sun bed but we don't know if that's true.
'It sounded like a machine gun going off... and there was a kind of explosion a little bit later.
'They're saying its going on in the hotel next to us. Police were chasing some men, that's all I know.'
Rebecca
Miles, a British tourist who was staying at the Royal Kenz hotel with
her boyfriend Dean Anderson, 24, told MailOnline: 'We were told to go
back to our rooms because there were reports of a bomb.
British holidaymaker Rebecca Miles,
who is staying in the Royal Kenz hotel in Sousse (pictured) said
tourists have been told to return to their rooms after the attack on the
private beach of the hotel
A holidaymaker John Yeoman has barricaded himself inside his hotel room in Sousse (pictured)
'It happened about half an hour ago – I heard a bang and I thought it was thunder but it was a clear sky so it obviously wasn't.
'I
heard sirens going off about 20 minutes ago and everyone came running
back from the private hotel beach which is about 400 metres from the
hotel. Everyone is a bit clueless about what is happening.
'People
are anxious because they don't really know what is happening and we are
now stuck in our rooms. There have been deaths apparently.'
David
Schofield said: 'We heard quite a large explosion...People are running
around the hotel. No-one has really been told what to do.'
The Foreign Office said it is aware of the reports and is looking into them.
In a statement, Thomas Cook said: 'Thomas Cook has been advised of an incident that occurred earlier today in Sousse, Tunisia.
'At this time, details are not clear as to which property(ies) have been affected, with conflicting news reports.
'We are currently gathering information and will provide an update as soon as possible.
'Our teams on the ground are offering every support to our customers and their families in the area.
'We will continue to monitor the situation, working closely with the FCO and local authorities.'
Mohamed
Ali Aroui, spokesman for Tunisia's Interior Minister, said: 'The
perpetrator of the massacre has been killed but there could be more.
'That that are others with him is something we cannot confirm or deny.'
While
the country's president Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi said: 'We have seen
today that Tunisia is facing an international movement.
'It
cannot respond alone. The proof is that at the same time and on the
same day, France has been the target of an similar operation as well as
Kuwait.
'This
is the proof that a global strategy is needed and that every democratic
country should unite its forces... I hope this time is the last time.'
Holiday brands Thomson and First Choice said they were 'aware of a suspected terrorist incident in Tunisia'.
They
added: 'We are working closely with our teams in Tunisia and the
relevant authorities to determine exactly what has happened and provide
assistance to those affected.
'More information will be released as it becomes available.'
This
morning's news follows a similar attack in March, when three terrorists
attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of
Tunis, and took hostages.
Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, while an additional victim died ten days later.
This picture shows the empty beach following the attack which has left 28 people, mainly tourists, dead
The terrorist attack happened in the popular holiday destination of Sousse in the north of Tunisia
It has been reported that the attack happened on the private beach of the Royal Kenz Hotel, which is situated 400 metres away
ISIS
claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest involving
foreigners in Tunisia since a 2002 suicide bombing on the island of
Djerba.
The
attack comes just hours after a man was decapitated and dozens more
injured at a gas product factory in France by terrorists carrying
Islamist banners.
The
attack took place at the headquarters of the American owned Air
Products, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near the city of Lyon, in the
south east of the country.
The
murder is believed to have been accompanied by several explosions on
the site cause by a terrorist igniting small 'gas bombs' that injured
dozens of factory workers.
It is believed the explosions may have intended to blow up the entire factory site but failed.
The murdered man's head is understood to have been found 30 feet away from his body, hanging on the factory's fence.
The
dead man's head was covered in Arabic 'inscriptions' before being
placed on the fence, according to local journalists at the scene.
A
30-year-old man - named by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve
as Yacine Sali who is understood to have been known to security
services since at least 2006 - has already been arrested at the scene,
telling police officers that he is a member of the Islamic State terror
group.
The man is believed not to have a criminal record but was considered to have 'possibly been radicalised'.
TERROR IN TUNISIA: SOUSSE MASSACRE COMES JUST THREE MONTHS AFTER 22 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN BARDO MUSEUM ATTACK
This
morning's savage attack on a beach near two tourist hotels on the
Mediterranean comes as Tunisia was just beginning to recover from the
massacre of 22 people in March.
In that attack gunmen stormed the Bardo National Museum in the capital Tunis, firing indiscriminately in a brazen daylight raid.
Three
jihadis opened fire on a bus load of tourists arriving at the museum
before chasing them into the building and killing more, Prime Minister
Habib Essid said at the time.
21 people were killed at the scene - including one Briton - while another person died 10 days later in hospital.
A further 50 people were injured in what is believed to be the worst terror attack in modern Tunisian history.
Two
of the perpetrators, Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed
at the scene of the attack, while the third identity is not yet clear.
Dozens of
men have so far been arrested in connection with the attack, although
many of them were detained on suspicion of helping to plan the massacre,
rather than taking part.
Tunisian
officials blamed the Bardo museum attack on a local terror group called
the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade - an Al Qaeda offshoot that declared
allegiance to ISIS last September.
The British victim of the Bardo museum attack was mother-of-two Sally Adey, of Caynstall, near Shifnal, Shropshire.
The
retired British solicitor died from wounds to her stomach and pelvis
while on a stop off on a Mediterranean cruise with her 52-year-old
husband Robert, who survived the attack and had to identify his wife's
body.
copy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário