38 British tourists killed by a gunman on a Tunisian beach

Thirty of the 38 people killed by a gunman on a Tunisian beach 

 Tunisian security forces "wasted time" before responding to a massacre on a beach resort as 30 British tourists were shot dead, a UK coroner has heard. In total, 38 people died in the hour-long gun attack near Sousse in June 2015. But local units deliberately "slowed down" as Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire, said the counsel to the inquest into the British deaths. The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings. A senior Foreign Office official also defended the government's decision not to raise the level of its terror alert in Tunisia following shootings at a museum in the capital city of Tunis four months earlier.