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Tunisia attack: British death toll confirmed as 30

All 30 Britons killed in the Tunisian beach attack have been identified, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

It came as the bodies of more victims were flown back to Britain, nearly a week after Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire in the resort of Sousse.

Tunisian authorities have arrested a number of people suspected of having links to the massacre.

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'This could destroy tourism in Tunisia for next decade'

The terror attacks on Tunisia could destroy tourism there for the next decade, a travel expert has said.

Simon Calder, Travel Editor for The Independent, told ITV News: "We haven't seen anything of this scale and sheer brutal horror since the attacks in Luxor about 20 years ago.

"That wiped out tourism to Egypt pretty effectively and I fear this will do the same."

A terror attack at an archaeological site in Luxor in 1997 killed 62 people, six of whom were Brits.

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