Tunisia: at least 37 dead in attack on hotel in Sousse
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By Catherine Hardy
with AFP
At least 37 people, including some foreigners, have been killed during an attack on a tourist hotel in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse.
At least 27 tourists dead in Tunisian hotel attack #Soussehttp://t.co/GkauAXiIGfpic.twitter.com/bt13na9RVR
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) 26 Juin 2015Local media and security services say at least one gunman was also shot dead in an exchange of fire.
Sousse is a popular tourist destination.
Tunisia has been on high alert since March when Islamist militants killed 22 people, mainly foreign tourists, in an attack on the famous Bardo museum in the capital Tunis.