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“Thomas Cook can confirm that it has cancelled all future bookings to Tunisia up until 31st October 2015″, the spokesman said.

The UK Foreign Office warned on Thursday that a further terrorist attack was “highly likely” following the massacre at a beach resort in Sousse at the end of June.

Saddlers fans Joel Richards, 19, his uncle Adrian Evans and grandfather Charles “Patrick” Evans, 78, were among those gunned down in Sousse, while Joel’s 16-year-old brother Owen survived the attack.

Meanwhile, details of the fatal wounds suffered by several victims have been revealed as inquests were opened into the terror attack.

A one-minute silence was held simultaneously in Sousse and across the United Kingdom, home to 30 of those killed.

Under the country’s new constitution, approved in January a year ago, the president has the right “in the event of imminent danger threatening the nation’s institutions, or the security or independence of the country” to “take any measures...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essibsi declared on Saturday a state of emergency one week after 38 foreign tourists were killed at a beach resort in the country’s worst-ever terror attack.

A state of emergency temporarily gives the government more flexibility and the army and police more authority, and restricts the right of public assembly.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has told the BBC that police took too long to react to last week’s jihadist attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons.

Meanwhile, the bodies of eight of the 26 Britons killed in last week’s attack were set to be flown home Wednesday, a British embassy source said.

The attack was Tunisia’s deadliest ever, and threatened to be a devastating blow to the country’s tourism sector.