AS THE shots got louder and the gunman appeared, moving methodically along a row of sunloungers, killing every sunburnt, cowering European holidaymaker he could find, Stephen and Cheryl Mellor, a middle-aged couple from Cornwall, clung to one another, saying, “I love you, I love you”. Seconds later, on the afternoon of June 26th, both had been shot, he fatally, as he lurched to save his wife, who lay, playing dead, in the sand.
Up and down the beach in Sousse, a north Tunisian resort town, similar scenes of panic and intimacy were taking place. By the time police marksmen caught up with Seifeddine Rezgui, a radicalised engineering student, he had scoured the beach, a hotel and its swimming-pool, then doubled back to cover the hotel reception area twice. Of the 38 he killed, perhaps 30 were British, making this Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity since the bomb blasts on the London Underground a decade ago. It was also, in its savage indiscriminateness, particularly difficult to comprehend.
Those bombings in 2005 were carried out by similarly indoctrinated British Muslims. Yet they were not a random assault on Westerners, as the Sousse...Continue reading
via Brian Rushton, Death on the beach
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