Tunisia’s president has declared a state of emergency just over a week after an ISIS gunman killed 38 people on a popular holiday resort.
It temporarily gives the government the power to restrict certain freedoms such as people’s right to protest and it also grants the police and army more authority. President Beji Essebsi will address the nation later today. Meanwhile the final five bodies of Britons killed in the beach massacre land back in the UK. Yesterday, the families of the 30 British people who were killed in Sousse joined with the Queen, the Prime Minister and millions around the country in a minute’s silence to remember them.
Tunisia’s government has promised new laws to increase police powers and hand out tougher punishment for terrorism crimes. The country’s prime minister promised to post armed guards at tourist sites and close mosques outside government control.
Seifeddine Rezgui was shot dead by police after he opened fire on a beach crowded with holidaymakers and chased them into a nearby hotel, where he threw hand grenades at them. Tunisian detectives investigating his final hours have now arrested his girlfriend over fears she helped plan the attack, as well as a taxi driver they believe drove him to the spot of the massacre.
The coffins of the British victims are due to be taken to West London Coroner’s Court in Fulham, west London, where inquests into their deaths will be held. It comes as Tunisia’s president declared a state of emergency after the Sousse hotel attack, state media said.
Thirty British people were among the 38 killed by gunman Seifeddine Rezgui on the beach. Yesterday the Queen and the Prime Minister joined millions of people across the country in a minute’s silence in memory of those killed.
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