Gunmen have killed at least 27 people in an attack on two tourist hotels in a Tunisian town popular with British holidaymakers.
Tourists fled from the beach in Sousse to take refuge in hotel rooms after guns were fired on the beach.
One man said his son saw someone get shot as he raced back to the hotel from the sea.
Photographs seen show one man in his 60s or 70s lying in a pool of blood in his swimming shorts.The country's interior ministry says one gunman has been killed, while another is still on the loose. At least 27 people have been killed.
Tourists are now gathered in hotel reception areas and hiding in rooms as the situation develops.
British tourist Gary Pine said: "We thought fire crackers were going off but you could see quite quickly what was going on.
"There was a mass exodus off the beach. My son was in the sea at the time and myself and my wife were shouting at him to get out and as he ran up he said I’ve just saw someone get shot.
Holidaymaker Susan Ricketts said: "It sounded like a machine gun going off. There are people crying and going hysterical. We just came up to our room."
Another said: "People are running around the hotel. No-one has really been told what to do."
John Yeoman has barricaded himself inside his hotel room using a bed and chair.
At least 16 people have been killed and dozens wounded in the attack.
Paramedic Abdelrahman al-Yusef says most of the victims were men or boys who were at the mosque when the bombing took place.
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