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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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Tunisia holds eight in connection with Sousse attack

Tunisian authorities are understood to have detained eight people in connection with the attack on a resort in Sousse that left 38 people dead.

A total of 12 people were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Of those seven men and one woman have remained in detention, amid fears of the existence of a terrorist cell in Tunis, the Tunisian capital.

The eight people detained all come from Tunis's slum neighbourhoods.

It is believed the authorities tracked the individuals down from a mobile phone used by Seifeddine Rezgui, the gunman in the attack, which he had thrown into the sea.

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