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TERROR IN TUNISIA
WOMAN'S OWN
|June 23, 2025
Ten years on, the tragic beach attack remains one of the deadliest assaults on British tourists ever to occur
To any onlooker, Seifeddine Rezgui, then 23, was just a man with a parasol slung over his shoulder, walking along the beach in the holiday resort of Sousse, Tunisia, in June 2015. But dressed all in black in the 30C midday heat, Rezgui had a sinister and shocking plan. Walking from the beach to the pool area of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel, he pulled out a rifle and opened fire on people as they lay on sunloungers.
Laughing as he went, he continued into the hotel, chasing people as they ran for cover.
Shooting people indiscriminately throwing a grenade in the corridors, forcing his way into rooms, before walking out the way he'd come. The devastating attack, which left 38 people dead - 30 of whom were British- and a further 39 people injured, lasted for 30 minutes before Rezgui was killed by security forces following an exchange of fire.
Tensions in Tunisia had been escalating for months before the attack. That March three radicals had killed 22 people at Bardo National Museum in Tunis. The terrorist group ISIS later took responsibility for both attacks.
It remains the biggest loss of British life to terrorism since the London bombings of July 2005. And for the survivors, life has never been the same. We speak to one woman who lived through it...
I'll live with what happened every day'
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