Tunisia attack: UK tourists advised to leave country.

All British nationals are being urged to leave Tunisia as a further terror attack is "highly likely", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said.
Mr Hammond said there was no suggestion of a "specific or imminent threat", but said the Foreign Office was advising against all non-essential travel there.
It estimates between 2,500 and 3,000 UK tourists are currently in Tunisia and a few hundred British residents.


Thirty of the 38 tourists killed in an attack there last month were British.

The Foreign Office said that despite more security measures being put in place by Tunisian authorities, these do not "provide adequate protection for British tourists".

It said in its updated advice that tour operators were arranging additional flights back to the UK.

Britons are urged to get in touch with their tour operators to plan their return, with those travelling independently advised to return on commercial flights.

Mr Hammond said: "While we do not have any information suggesting a specific or imminent threat, since the attack in Sousse the intelligence and threat picture has developed considerably, leading us to the view that a further terrorist attack is highly likely."

He went on: "The Tunisian investigation into those behind the Sousse attack, and that on the Bardo Museum earlier this year, is on-going and the Tunisians have made clear they want to track down further individuals who they suspect may have links to this attack.

"Furthermore, we have now completed an assessment of the security measures in tourist areas and while we are working with the Tunisian authorities to further strengthen those measures, we judge that more work is needed to effectively protect tourists from the terrorist threat.

"Taking all these factors together, we judge that it is right and prudent to make this change today."