Friday, June 26, 2015

37 dead in attack in Tunisia: “We believed in the fires of … – The Obs

At least 37 people, including many foreign tourists, have died this Friday, June 26 under the bullets of a man shot dead during the attack, which opened fire on the beach of a 5-star hotel in the resort of El Kantaoui, next to Sousse. Three months after the bloody attack against the Bardo Museum in Tunis (22 dead), it is the worst attack in the recent history of Tunisia.

The death toll rose early evening, from 28 to 37 people. The nationalities of the victims are not known immediately. 36 people, including British, German and Belgian nationality, were also injured in the attack. At the time of the attack, “there were 565 guests in the hotel. Guests are mainly from the United Kingdom and Central Europe,” said the hotel group in a statement. An Irish among the dead, said Dublin, while the British government was reported at least 5 victims in the early evening.



#Qui is the author of the attack?

The Secretary of State for Security Affairs, Rafik Chelly, said the killings had been committed by a “young student” Tunisian, unknown to police. “He is from the region of Kairouan”, one of the holy cities of Islam in the center of Tunisia to sixty kilometers from Sousse.



This person was not known “our services, has he added to the antenna of the radio Mosaique FM, adding that” a priori, one element “led the attack before being killed.

The man, who arrived on foot or by sea aboard a Zodiac according to testimony, was armed with a machine gun Kalashnikov. Minority versions nevertheless describe an attack by two assailants.

# How the attack took place?

According to many accounts, the assailant, dressed in shorts and a shirt, began by posing as a holidaymaker to mingle with the crowd before going into action. The authorities confirmed that the man arrived on the beach concealing his Kalashnikov in a parasol. Around noon, he began firing randomly into the crowd.

An Irish tourist, Elizabeth O’Brien, on holiday in Sousse with his two son, was first thought I heard “firecrackers”.

But at some point I I said: my God, they’re shooting. I ran down to the sea to look my children and our business. Going back to the hotel, waiters and guards repeatedly shouted to us: ‘run, run, run! “, She has told RTE radio

.” With my son, it was entrenched in our bungalow, we do not reach the reception, the phone does not. My travel agent told me to go to the reception but I’m too scared to go out. I’m locked up here with my two boys, cut off from the world, “she added.



#Kalachnikov and” grenade “

In an attitude described as perfectly calm and determined, the then points to individual tourists lying on loungers along the swimming pool.

“I heard gunshots and I went out to see what was happening. I saw someone shooting at older tourists (on the beach). They are dead, “he told Brahim Slim.



I tried to hide myself because I have seen the terrorist enter the hotel on the side of the pool. He then threw a grenade near pool “.

The man is a time entered the establishment, attacking people near the reception. Soon after, the police managed to kill the young man.

“My 22 year old son had just returned to bathe, when we saw a hundred meters to our left that was thought to be fireworks, “said a British tourist on TV” Sky News “.

It is only when we started to hear bullets fuser we realized it was much more serious than fireworks. “

# “Tunisia can not respond alone”

The Embassy of France in Tunis called on its nationals by SMS to “vigilance” and “limit travel and avoid gatherings. “The Quai d’Orsay, which has not confirmed the presence of French victims, has established a unit to inform French families present on site, whose number is January 42 17 56 46 . French President Francois Hollande and his Tunisian counterpart have jointly expressed their “solidarity against terrorism.”

In 2013, a suicide bomber had already detonated on a beach Sousse, causing no casualties. The president Beji Caid Essebsi, who visited the scene of the attack, found that the attacks were “proof that a comprehensive strategy and that all democratic countries must now join forces”.

Tunisia is facing an international movement. She can answer all alone in this, “he said.

Tunisia said fear of attacks at the approach of the tourist season and announced increased security measures. Threats from accounts on social networks linked to the jihadist movement had threatened new attacks during the summer.

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