Tourists scramble to leave Tunisia

TOURISTS are scrambling to leave Tunisia after a gunman killed 38 people at a beach resort in an attack claimed by Islamic State.

Thirty-seven people have been killed after a gunman walked into a Tunisian hotel and opened fire.

THOUSANDS of scared foreign holidaymakers are being flown from Tunisia after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort.

THE Islamic State jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday, the deadliest in Tunisia's recent history.