British tourists describe the horror they experienced at the beach resort in Tunisia where a gunman killed 37 people and wounded 36.
Olivia Leathley, 24, from Manchester in northwest England, tells Britain’s Press Association she saw one woman whose husband had been shot in the stomach in front of her.
She says the woman was “dragged away by hotel reps trying to get her to safety but she was a complete mess. She was in hysterics.”
Leathley says: “All she said was that he’d been shot and that he was there bleeding on the beach and he was just saying, ‘I love you, I love you,’ and then his eyes rolled back into his head.”
Debbie Horsfall from Huddersfield in northern England tells the BBC the gunman had started firing on people at the sandbanks right next to her.
“As he began to fire we just got up and ran straight to our hotel,” she says.
— AP
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