Gas engineer shielded fiancee in Tunisia attack and told her 'I'm going to die'

A man who was blasted three times during the Tunisian beach massacre has spoken of the moment he shielded his fiancee and told her: "I'm going to die."

Gas engineer Matthew James, 30, said he saw gunman Seifeddine Rezgui show "no emotion in his face" as he fired at holidaymakers in Sousse.

He is still recovering in hospital in Cardiff more than a week after the attack as the bodies of the 30 Britons killed were repatriated and inquests into their deaths opened.

More inquests are expected to be formally opened today into the deaths of British tourists killed in the Tunisia terror attack.

In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, Mr James said upon hearing gunshots he immediately flung himself and partner Saera Wilson, 26, to the ground.

With wounds in the shoulder, chest and hip, Mr James managed to reach the Imperial Hotel as Miss Wilson searched for him among the dead being brought into the nearby Belle Vue hotel.

They were reunited after holiday reps told her he had been taken to hospital.

The couple had left their two children, Tegan, six, and Kaden, 14 months, at home with their family when they set off on June 21 for a two-week holiday.