DUBAI, June 29 Tunisian stock prices fell moderately in thin trade early on Monday as the market reopened after Friday’s attack on a holiday resort which killed 39 people.
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The attack in Kuwait was also claimed by the Islamic State and on Saturday thousands of people took part in a mass funeral procession.
Authorities identified the gunman as Seifeddin Rezgui, a 24-year-old from northern Siliana province.
Tunisia’s president has admitted security services were not prepared for last week’s jihadist beach massacre, as authorities warned the country is likely to lose more than half-a-billion dollars in tourism revenues. Dozens more people were injured in the Friday attack.
The attack in the resort of Sousse was Tunisia’s bloodiest ever, and the deadliest for Britain since the 7/7 bombings in 2005, in which 52 commuters died.
The man, who the employee didn’t identify, was treated by a doctor and is now recovering in hospital, he said.
Cameron’s office said that 18 Britons have been confirmed dead, and the total is expected to rise to around 30.
Police and vehicles that had deployed on Monday during a visit by the interior ministers of Britain, France and Germany were gone by Tuesday morning.
“We may have zero clients today, but we will keep our staff”, he said, lamenting the 75-percent occupancy rate the day before.
“That said, we may be seeing the start of a long campaign conducted by ISIS members or sympathisers who have been trained and sent back home to their countries to take their own initiative in planning and conducting attacks, depending on their abilities, resources and opportunities”, he said.
“God only knows what led my son to this act”.
He said extra security had been put in place at other locations during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, but nobody had expected beaches to be a target.
He said he had seen pictures of the dead and couldn’t understand why his son would kill innocent victims.
Initial local radio reports on Friday had suggested there may have been another gunman. In his messages, the pope once again condemned acts of violence that generate so much suffering, the broadcaster said. Tourist made up almost 15 percent of gross domestic product in 2014 and it has been struggling to recover after the shocks of the Arab Spring revolution.
Those accounts were backed up by the killer’s uncle Ali al Rezgui, who told the Telegraph the family had seen nothing to worry them – although Yacoubi had apparently been traumatised by the death of his brother in a lightning strike in 2010.
The two gunmen who carried out the March attack on the Bardo had also clandestinely crossed into Libya for training late previous year, investigators said.
Meanwhile, the first of 80 mosques accused of spreading extremist messages has been shut down by officials, along with a number of jihadi websites.
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Essid said that Tunisia’s remote western mountains where jihadist groups operate would be declared closed military zones to facilitate search operations by security forces.
