Tunisia Terrorist Killing Spree: 37 Dead
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Editors comment: What the media is not telling you is that Tunisia is a popular vacation destination among Europeans. In fact, Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba, is an all inclusive resort that features a photo of a White couple on their opening page, since this is a resort frequented by Europeans.
The media has made no mention of race in this mass shooting, although those who were mass murdered included English, Irish, Germans, Belgians and other European ethnicities.
The white feet of dead Europeans were seen covered under blankets in the aftermath. Injured Europeans can be seen coming out of the ambulance, carried on stretchers for medical attention. Crowds of Europeans gather in the hotel lobby, shocked after the shooting.
37 were shot dead, 36 injured.
Following article from: dailymail.co.uk
Shot: Emergency workers tend to one of the 36 people to be injured when a gunman who is believed to be called Seifeddine Yacoubi
Laughing and joking among the midday bathers and sunseekers, he looked like any other tourist.
In fact Seifeddine Yacoubi was carefully selecting the victims he would murder with the Kalashnikov hidden in his parasol.
Bodies lie on a beach in Sousse after gunmen opened fire on tourists at two hotels, killing at least 37
The British were his prime targets on the crowded Tunisian beachfront at El Kantaoui near Sousse.
But Germans, Belgians and Tunisians were also among his 37 victims – with 36 seriously wounded.
Slaughtered: One of the 37 people killed in the attack on the Tunisian beach lies underneath the towel as horrified onlookers surround the scene
'He was laughing and joking around, like a normal guy,' said one witness. 'He was choosing who to shoot. Some people, he was saying to them 'you go away'. He was choosing tourists, British, French.'
Onslaught: One of the survivors of the massacre on a beach in Tunisia sits inside the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, where a window was smashed by gunfire
Many tourists barricaded themselves in their rooms after the 23-year-old student opened fire.
Olivia Leathley, 24, a chef from Chorlton, Manchester, said she and her boyfriend escaped the massacre at the Imperial Marhaba hotel only because she was charging her phone.
The terrorist attack happened in the popular holiday destination of Sousse in the north of Tunisia
'We then heard a shot from inside the hotel. Somebody just shouted 'run' so we sprinted off in all directions,' she said. 'The machine gun fire was so close, it sounded like it was right behind us.
Medics help an injured man in Sousse after gunmen stormed beaches of two hotels in the town of Sousse
'I was then on the phone to my dad, screaming at the top of my lungs and telling him 'I love you, I love you'.
'My dad Glenn was saying 'I love you' and shouting prayers down the phone, begging 'Lord, protect them'. We eventually found an office building and hid in a room. As soon as I got somewhere safe, I threw up.
'I later came across a woman who said her husband had been shot in the stomach on the beach. He was bleeding heavily, but she had to leave him there.'
A hotel worker said a shoeless Yacoubi, who arrived on the beach by inflatable boat, had tried to blend in with the crowd. He added: 'He opened fire with a Kalashnikov. He was a young guy dressed in shorts – like he was a tourist himself.'
Rafik Chelli, Tunisia's secretary of state for national security, said the gunman – named locally as Yacoubi – entered the Marhaba complex through the pool area.
'He entered by the beach, dressed like someone who was going to swim, and he had a beach umbrella with his gun in it. Then when he came to the beach he used his weapon,' Mr Chelli said. Yacoubi was shot dead by the security forces.
Because of the Ramadan religious period, there were few Tunisians on the beach and few children because most schools have yet to break up.
Houcine Jenayah, a businessman, said the gunman arrived at speed on an inflatable Zodiac boat.
Bloodied: Emergency workers rushed to get the injured people to a hospital
'He opened fire and had grenades with him,' said Mr Jenayah. 'He hid his Kalashnikov behind a parasol that he had in his hand.'
Within minutes of the massacre, photographs had been posted on an Instagram account showing a middle-aged man wearing blue shorts lying face down in the sand with a pool of blood around his head.
Other bodies were covered with towels and marked with numbers.
Father-of-three John Yeoman, 46, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, used a bed to barricade himself and his family in the room of his hotel. 'We were in the pool when we heard automatic gunfire. People ran past saying there was an armed man on the beach,' he said.
Tweeting a picture of his barricaded room, he added: 'Hope it's enough. It's been going on for 20 minutes. We blocked in our room. There are sounds of a gun battle.'
The final moments of the terrorist were captured on camera as, weapon in hand, he prowled the streets of Sousse. With the gunman dead, police pursued suspects through the streets of Sousse, which is about 90 miles south of the capital Tunis.
More than three hours after the massacre an apparent accomplice was arrested near the motorway.
Pictures showed him being punched in the face by a furious woman as he was marched through the town by armed police.
Police were pictured detaining several men in the aftermath of the carnage but it was not clear last night whether the suspects were connected to the attack.
While there were multiple accounts of what happened, most witnesses spoke of a lone gunman who was later shot dead by the Tunisian security forces.
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