Tunisia declares state of emergency following Sousse terror attack which killed 30 Britons
TUNISIA has declared a state of emergency today, just over a week after 30 Britons were slaughtered by an Islamic State gunman at a popular holiday resort.
Tunisia has declared a state of emergency today
The country's president announced the move, which temporarily gives the government the power to restrict freedoms including people's right to protest and bolsters police powers.
The news came on the same day that the final five bodies of the Britons killed in the beach massacre landed 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.
They were amongst the 38 gunned down by Islamic State (ISIS) gunman Seifeddine Rezgui's, who went on the rampage on a beach in Sousse whilst high on cocaine.
Tunisia's government has promised to hand police new powers to help them more effectively tackle terrorism, with harsher penalties for anyone found guilty.
The country's prime minister has also said the government will post armed guards at tourist sites and close mosques outside government control.
The country's prime minister has vowed to place armed guards at tourist spots
Islamic State gunman Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on innocent tourists
Today the Foreign Office confirmed that the final victims to be repatriated to Britain were Lisa Burbidge, Stuart Cullen, Christopher Dyer, Bruce Wilkinson and Claire Windass.
Their coffins were due to be loaded on to hearses and taken in convoy to West London Coroner's Court in Fulham, where inquests into their deaths will be held.
Chinyere Inyama, senior coroner for West London, opened the first inquests into eight of the Britons killed in the tragedy yesterday
The court heard evidence about the deadly wounds inflicted on the tourists after Rezgui opened fire on them with a Kalashnikov machine gun.
Mourners lay flowers at the scene of the massacre in Sousse
The final British victims were repatriated from Syria today