Tunisia beach massacre: Eight suspects to be charged, two more hunted

Eight suspects arrested in connection with the deadly attack on a Tunisian beach resort are to be charged, it is understood. The seven men and one woman would face charges over the killings - as Britain’s foreign office said all 30 British victims had now been identified. Tunisia’s government had earlier said 12 suspects had been detained but four have since been released. The country’s authorities also revealed they were hunting two more militants who trained in Libya with the men who carried out last Friday’s killings and those at the Bardo Museum in March.

This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse.

Lazhar Akremi, Tunisian minister for parliamentary relations

Thirty-eight foreigners, most British tourists, were killed in Friday’s attack before the gunman was shot by police. In March, two gunmen killed 21 people at the Tunis Bardo museum, before they were also shot. The arrests come as an RAF plane returns to Tunisia to continue the operation to repatriate the bodies of Britons killed in Sousse. The C-17 military transport aircraft is expected back at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire this afternoon, with all of the victims flown home “over the coming days”. A minute’s silence will be held across the UK on Friday at midday, marking one week since the attack.

We now have all 30 British victims positively identified and we can say with a high degree of confidence that is the final death toll.

British foreign secretary Philip Hammond

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