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| Tunisia attack: Police arrest 12 suspects over Sousse beach tourist massacre | |
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| The Tunisian government says it has arrested 12 suspects in connection to the shooting of 38 people at a hotel in Sousse. | The Tunisian government says it has arrested 12 suspects in connection to the shooting of 38 people at a hotel in Sousse. |
| Two others were still being hunted by police, and were believed to have trained in Libya alongside both the 23-year-old Sousse gunman Seiffedine Rezgui and the attackers who targeted the Bardo Museum in March, government officials said. | |
| On Tuesday, police in Tunisia released photos of two men identified as Rafkhe Talari and Bin Abdallah, though their connection to the deceased gunman Seifeddine Rezgui was not clear. | On Tuesday, police in Tunisia released photos of two men identified as Rafkhe Talari and Bin Abdallah, though their connection to the deceased gunman Seifeddine Rezgui was not clear. |
| Rafkhe Talari (left) and Bin Abdallah (right) are both wanted by Tunisian police Tunisia's Radio Mosaique reported that Lazhar Akremi, minister for parliamentary relations, made the announcement at a party meeting late on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear when all the arrests had been made. | |
| "This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse," Akremi said. | "This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse," Akremi said. |
| "Police are hunting for two more." In pictures: Tunisia hotel attack | |
| Of the 38 victims in last Friday's attack on Sousse, 30 are believed to have been British nationals on holiday in the resort town. | Of the 38 victims in last Friday's attack on Sousse, 30 are believed to have been British nationals on holiday in the resort town. |
| Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said on Wednesday that all but one of the British victims had been formally identified and that the process of repatriating their bodies would completed "over the coming days". | Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said on Wednesday that all but one of the British victims had been formally identified and that the process of repatriating their bodies would completed "over the coming days". |
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