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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 government arrests 12 hotel attack suspects

Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the deadly Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said.

The Reuters news agency reports that Lazhar Akremi, minister for parliamentary relations, said:

This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective.

Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse.

– Lazhar Akremi

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