At least 27 dead in Tunisia attack

IT'S believed foreign tourists are among the at least 27 people who have been killed in an attack by a gunman on a hotel in Tunisia.

A GUNMAN has shot dead at least 27 people, including foreign tourists, in an attack on a beach resort in Tunisia, the interior ministry says.

MINISTRY spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui has told national television the shooting on Friday in Sousse was a "terrorist attack".