Minute of silence to be held for Tunisia victims

The UK will hold a minute of silence at noon on Friday to honour victims of the terror attack that took place in Tunisia last Friday.

The attack at a popular beach resort in the town of Port El Kantaoui near Sousse, claimed the lives of 38 people, including 30 Britons, three Irish people, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian.

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David Cameron, the British prime minister, asked all government departments and official buildings in the country to fly flags at half-mast.

In Sousse, Britain’s ambassador to Tunisia, Hamish Cowell and other European diplomats will lay wreaths at the scene of the attack before observing a minute’s silence there

The Tunisian government on Thursday announced it had arrested 12 suspects believed to be linked to gunman Seifeddine Rezgui, the 23-year-old accused of Sousse's terror attack

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