Thousands of Britons arrive home after Tunisia attack
Thousands of Britons have arrived back in the UK just days after the deadly attack on a Tunisian beach resort.
Travel companies scrambled to provide extra flights on top of scheduled services for people seeking to return home.
An estimated 20,000 British tourists were holidaying in Tunisia at the time of the deadly attack on Friday, according to the Association of British Travel Agents.
This is while the UK Foreign Office website has advised Britons against travelling to the country and recommended those already there to avoid visiting the Libyan border, the Algerian border crossings at Ghardimaou, Hazoua, Chaambi Mountain national park area, and Sakiet Sidi Youssef, the militarised area south of El Borma and Dhehiba.
On Friday, a Tunisian student disguised as a tourist pulled out an MK 47 assault rifle concealed in a beach umbrella and opened fire on tourists at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port El Kantaoui, near the city of Sousse south of the capital Tunis.
The gunman, who was shot dead by police, only targeted tourists, yelling to locals to "Stay away,” adding, “I didn't come for you."
So far, police have identified 18 of the 38 people killed as 14 Britons, a German, a Belgian, a woman from Ireland and another from Portugal.
Three months ago, another terrorist attack claimed the lives of 21 tourists and a policeman at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.
Both attacks were claimed by the ISIL Takfiri group, which has seized control of parts of Syria and Iraq and carried out a wave of terrorist attacks there and elsewhere around the world.
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