At least 27 tourists dead in Tunisian hotel attacks as gunmen 'shoot people on sunbeds' on beach

MailOnline ^ | 26 June 2015 | By Thomas Burrows and John Hall

[dennisw]

At least 27 tourists dead in Tunisian hotel attacks as gunmen 'shoot people on sunbeds' along beach packed with western holidaymakers

ISIS have carried out a terrorist attack at holiday destination of Sousse Militants, thought to be from ISIS, exchanged gunfire with security services Gunmen have killed at least 27 people in the attack on the tourist beach Attack comes just hours after a man was decapitated near Lyon, in France

Gunmen killed at least 27 people in 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 a resort, described how she grabbed her children and ran for their lives when they heard gunfire erupting from one of the hotels.

'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.

[rktman]

Not to mention that we were reminded just the other day that there are NO mass killings in other developed countri........... Oh, Tunisia. Guess that doesn’t count as developed or the killings are just a ritual heritage thing? Oddly enough these are classified as gunmen and not “AK-47’s attack innocent tourists”. Thank goodness we have margabby kelley-giffords who’ll rush over there and condemn these insane uses of guns and require UN background checks. Maybe some of the momunists will go too.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...and we just ran to our room, which is like a little bungalow..."

Yeah, you be safe there for sure...

[NormsRevenge]

The West has been at war with Islam for hundreds of years and vice versa.. unfortunately, we haven’t been using the best available weapons to fight back.