Two gunmen opened fire at a beachfront hotel
packed with holiday makers yesterday killing
38 people, with 36 seriously injured. Majority
of the people killed are British followed by
Germans, then Belgians. ISIS has since taken
credit for the brutal massacre.

One of the killers, who has been identified as
Abu Yahya Qayrawani, 23 (pictured above)
was reportedly seen laughing and joking with
holidaymakers, looking like any other tourist
but used the time to carefully select the
victims he would murder with a Kalashnikov
hidden in his parasol. The were said to be his
primary target.

‘He was laughing and joking around, like a
normal guy,’ said one witness. ‘He was
choosing who to shoot. Some people, he was
saying to them ‘you go away’. He was
choosing tourists, British, French.’
Tom Richards, a university graduate who was
on holiday with his mother and younger
brother, found himself face-to-face with a
man with ‘long black hair and a beard’,
between 20 to 25.

He and his mother Sam had fled from the
pool when they heard the shots ring out, but
were confronted with the Kalashnikov-
wielding terrorist inside the hotel, where they
were sheltering with other guests.
The gunman shot two people in the head,
before turning his attention to Mr Richards.
The 22-year-old told The Guardian: ‘He
looked right at me, I thought I was dead.’
But instead of shooting Mr Richards, he shot
the floor – allowing Mr Richards and his
mother, who were injured by shards of
marble, to escape to a nearby toilet. “I don’t
know why he stopped. He could have killed
everybody,” he said.

Many tourists barricaded themselves in their
rooms after the 23-year-old student opened
fire.In another chilling account, Ibrahim el-Ghoul
revealed how the killer had been smiling.
The trainee mechanic, who works part-time
at hotel nearby, said the gunman told him ‘I
don’t want to kill you; I want to hit tourists,’
according to The Independent.
The terrorist after he was killed by police
Olivia Leathley, 24, a chef from Chorlton,
Manchester, said she and her boyfriend
escaped the massacre at the Imperial
Marhaba hotel only because she was
charging her phone.
‘We then heard a shot from inside the hotel.
Somebody just shouted run so we sprinted off
in all directions,’ she said. ‘The machine gun
fire was so close, it sounded like it was right
behind us.
‘I was then on the phone to my dad,
screaming at the top of my lungs and telling
him ‘I love you, I love you’.
‘My dad Glenn was saying ‘I love you’ and
shouting prayers down the phone, begging
‘Lord, protect them’. We eventually found an
office building and hid in a room. As soon as I
got somewhere safe, I threw up.
‘I later came across a woman who said her
husband had been shot in the stomach on the
beach. He was bleeding heavily, but she had
to leave him there.’
A hotel worker said a shoeless Yacoubi, who
arrived on the beach by inflatable boat, had
tried to blend in with the crowd. He added: ‘He
opened fire with a Kalashnikov. He was a
young guy dressed in shorts – like he was a
tourist himself.’
Rafik Chelli, Tunisia’s secretary of state for
national security, said the gunman – named
locally as Yacoubi – entered the Marhaba
complex through the pool area.
‘He entered by the beach, dressed like
someone who was going to swim, and he had
a beach umbrella with his gun in it. Then
when he came to the beach he used his
weapon,’ Mr Chelli said. Yacoubi was shot
dead by the security forces.
Because of the Ramadan religious period,
there were few Tunisians on the beach and
few children because most schools have yet
to break up.
Houcine Jenayah, a businessman, said the
gunman arrived at speed on an inflatable
Zodiac boat.
‘He opened fire and had grenades with him,’
said Mr Jenayah. ‘He hid his Kalashnikov
behind a parasol that he had in his hand.’
Within minutes of the massacre, photographs
had been posted on an Instagram account
showing a middle-aged man wearing blue
shorts lying face down in the sand with a pool
of blood around his head.
Father-of-three John Yeoman, 46, of
Kettering, Northamptonshire, used a bed to
barricade himself and his family in the room
of his hotel. ‘We were in the pool when we
heard automatic gunfire. People ran past
saying there was an armed man on the
beach,’ he said.
Tweeting a picture of his barricaded room, he
added: ‘Hope it’s enough. It’s been going on
for 20 minutes. We blocked in our room.
There are sounds of a gun battle.’
The final moments of the terrorist were
captured on camera as, weapon in hand, he
prowled the streets of Sousse. With the
gunman dead, police pursued suspects
through the streets of Sousse, which is about
90 miles south of the capital Tunis.
More than three hours after the massacre an
apparent accomplice was arrested near the
motorway.
Police were pictured detaining several men in
the aftermath of the carnage but it was not
clear last night whether the suspects were
connected to the attack.
While there were multiple accounts of what
happened, most witnesses spoke of a lone
gunman who was later shot dead by the
Tunisian security forces.

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Lord have mercy!!!

The foreign tourists should be realistic, going to another country with different culture like tunisia and be almost unclad on their beach would always bring recurrent problems.