Tunisian authorities make first arrests after Sousse beach resort killings

A small number of victims were reportedly from Germany, Belgium and Ukraine. We will be united to ensure we defeat them but united also in working to defend our values.

A Royal Air Force (RAF) Boeing C17 plane evacuated four injured Britons yesterday and all 25 of the British wounded-out of a total of 39 hurt-will have been brought back by today, officials said.

Shocking new amateur footage from the attack has emerged on social media, showing the gunman walking calmly along the shore and bloodied bodies on the sand.

The Tunisia Beach Resort attacker, identified as Saif Al-Deen Al Rezgui, was shot dead by police Friday outside the hotel.

Home Secretary Theresa May is travelling to the north African nation for talks on the extremist threat and to offer condolences for the slain tourists.

On Monday, handwritten messages could be seen next to the flowers on the beach, reading “We are sorry” and “We are Muslims, not terrorists”.

Three months ago, another terrorist attack claimed the lives of 21 tourists and a policeman at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

In other comments, Gharsalli said 1,000 troops will now be deployed to protect the country’s beach resorts following the latest incident.

However, the authorities in London expect that number to rise to “around 30”, Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman announced on Monday.

“We can not establish at this moment, but there is some information that he belonged to an organization”, he said, describing a mosque that may have influenced Al Rezgui’s thinking.

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Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi said an investigation was under way into security failures and there would be armed police on beaches.

“It’s a lovely place and people are great”.

A single inquest covering all the British victims is to be opened by the eest London coroner. “Just as in the Cold War we had to confront the ideology, we have to do that again”.

Praised for its new constitution and free elections after the ousting of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has still struggled with the rise of the fundamentalist Islamist movements that flourished in the turmoil immediately following the uprising.

While it has been praised for holding democratic elections, critics say Tunisia has yet to deal with the poverty and social exclusion that has fuelled radicalism among some of its youth.

Tourism provides 7% of Tunisia’s GDP, is a major source of foreign currency and the biggest employer other than agriculture.