Summary

  • At least 15 Britons have been confirmed dead by the Foreign Office, which warned the toll could rise

  • Three of the Britons who have been killed have been named as Carly Lovett, Adrian Evans and Joel Richards

  • The majority of the 38 people killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort were British, the country's prime minister Habib Essid says

  • Tour operators are flying holidaymakers home, with the first arriving back in the UK on Saturday morning

  • UK PM David Cameron says the terrorists "will not succeed"

  • Foreign Office issues emergency number for people concerned over friends or relatives - 0207 008 0000

Live Reporting

Ian Westbrook and Dominic Howell

  1. Pic: Flowers at the scene of shooting

    FlowersAP

  2. 'I kissed my wife goodbye'

    A number of accounts of the panic in Tunisia are coming through. One British tourist in Tunisia, whose name was only given as Danny, took refuge under a table with his wife, hearing ''guns and grenades and explosions'' around them.

    ''I hid under a table and kissed my wife goodbye, thinking that was going to be the end,'' he said.

    You can hear more here .

  3. Airline providing extra flights

    Jet 2 has confirmed it will put on extra flights to get people back to the UK from Tunisia today. We'll post details when we have them. 

  4. Confusion still at scene

    Dave Beardman from Accrington was in the area when the attack took place. He says there is still confusion in the area.

    At the moment, we are in the hotel reception. There is a great deal of distress and tension. Children are crying and people are trying to make phone calls."

  5. Travel updates

    Abta, the tourism association, says customers due to travel to Tunisia in the next two days are advised to contact their tour operator for their options. Those due to travel after this are advised to wait for further information, it said. 

    EasyJet says it will provide an additional flight from Monastir, Tunisia, later this afternoon for customers who wish to fly home early. It said in a statement: "We are proactively contacting all of our customers in Tunisia about this flight, though customers can also contact easyJet on 03303655000 to be booked on to this flight. The flight is due to depart Monastir at 17.45 local time." 

    Earlier TUI, which runs Thomson and First Choice, announced that it had specialist teams - directors and trauma teams - in Tunisia supporting those who needed it, and arranging travel for those who wished to return to the UK to be back by tomorrow.

  6. 'They're inside, run'

    Olivia Leathley and Mike Jones

    Olivia Leathley and Mike Jones, who are now back in Manchester after returning from Tunisia, have been describing the scene at her hotel.  

    Me and my boyfriend were in our hotel room. We were about to go down to the beach but I was waiting to charge my phone, so I said we'll go down in half an hour. We then heard what we know now were grenades and gunfire and we saw from our balcony hundreds of people running and screaming from the beach."

    I rang my dad to let him know what was happening and while I was on the phone to him we heard shots from inside the building where we were... someone shouted 'they're inside, run'... all the time I've got dad on the other end of the phone and I'm screaming down the phone to him 'I love you, I love you, I'm so scared' and I can just hear him shouting down to the phone 'Lord, be with them, Lord protect them'."

  7. Beach still closed off

    BBC News Channel

    The BBC's Ben Brown is in Sousse, outside the hotel where yesterday's attack took place. He says the blood of victims is being washed away this morning. 

    The area of the beach where the killings happened remains closed off he adds. 

    The owner of the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel has told him he believes the tourism industry in the country can recover.   

  8. Updates

    We've been having a few technical issues on the site this morning, which we think are now solved. We'll be updating this page with the latest information now. You can access our earlier updates  here .