by Our Foreign Desk

AT LEAST 28 people were killed and 36 wounded yesterday when two gunmen opened fire on holidaymakers at a Tunisian resort.

Armed with assault rifles, the pair stormed the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the seaside town of Soussa from the beach.

Security forces killed one attacker and are still hunting the other, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui.

“A terrorist infiltrated the buildings from the back before opening fire on the residents of the hotel, including foreigners and Tunisians,” he said.

The victims included Tunisian, British, German and Belgian tourists.

The rampage followed two other terror attacks yesterday in France and Kuwait.

Islamic State (Isis) claimed responsibility for an attack at a Shi’ite mosque in Kuwait City that killed at least 16 people,
In south-east France a man with reported ties to Islamic extremists rammed a car into a chemicals factory, leaving a severed head with a message on a post by the entrance.

British tourist Gary Pine told Sky News his son saw one of the victims in Tunisia.

“There was a mass exodus off the beach,” he said, adding that guests at his hotel were first told to lock themselves in their rooms and later to gather in the lobby.

Elizabeth O’Brien, an Irish tourist on holiday with her two sons, told Irish Radio she was on the beach when she heard what she initially thought was fireworks.

“I thought ‘Oh my God, it sounds like gunfire’, so I just ran to the sea to my children and grabbed our things” before fleeing to her hotel room, she said.