Survivors of Tunisia terror attacks welcome life sentence for seven militants

Survivors of the 2015 terror attacks in Tunisia have welcomed the life sentence handed to seven jihadists.

A Tourist prays beside flowers placed in tribute to the people killed in a terror attack on a beach in front of the imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse,Tunisia. Source: AAP

A Tunisian court has sentenced seven jihadists to life in prison over attacks at a museum and on a beach in 2015 that killed 60 people, many of them British tourists, prosecutors said on Saturday.

Dozens of defendants faced two separate trials over the closely linked shootings, which occurred just months apart in Tunis and Sousse, but many were acquitted.

Four were sentenced to life in prison for the shooting rampage at a Sousse tourist resort in June 2015, which killed 38 people, mostly British tourists.

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