Spanish tourists hid in Tunis museum during deadly rampage

Two Spanish tourists are being monitored in hospital after spending the night hiding in a Tunisian museum while gunmen went on a deadly rampage.

Members of the Tunisian security services stand guard inside the National Bardo museum, Tunis, Tunisia, 19 March 2015. (EPA/MOHAMED MESSARA)
Members of the Tunisian security services stand guard inside the National Bardo museum, Tunis, Tunisia, 19 March 2015. (EPA/MOHAMED MESSARA)

Two Spanish tourists, a man and his pregnant wife, have been found alive following the deadly attack on a Tunis museum after spending the night hiding inside the building.

It comes as Tunisia's health ministry said 20 foreigner tourists had died in the attack.

Health Minister Said Aidi said 13 of the victims, including three Japanese and two French citizens, had been identified.

The two gunmen also died and authorities are searching for two or three other possible accomplices.

A museum employee hid the two Spaniards in an office during the four-hour rampage by gunmen in military uniform.

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All three were taken to hospital on Thursday for medical checks after their ordeal, a civil protection official told AFP outside the museum.

Meanwhile Britain has confirmed a British woman also died in the terror attack and named her as Sally Adey.

Italian cruise company Costa Crociere has suspended stopovers by its boats in Tunis until further notice.

Costa says the suspension will affect three of its giant ships which had been due to berth in Tunis.

A woman from Belgium was also among those killed, a foreign ministry official in Brussels said.

MSC Cruises also suspended Tunis stopovers.

Nine of the tourists killed at a Tunisian museum, including an Australian-Colombian dual national and his mother, were passengers on the MSC Spendida cruise ship.


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