Victim Repatriations 'On Wednesday'

Victim Repatriations 'On Wednesday'

Repatriations of Britons killed by a gunman in last week's Tunisian beach massacre are expected to begin on Wednesday, Downing Street has said.

Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokeswoman said that 21 Britons have been "positively identified" as victims of the murder spree, while another nine UK nationals are believed to be among the dead.

All wounded Britons have now been brought back to the UK, with four severely injured holidaymakers flown home in an RAF C17 transport plane accompanied by "medevac" teams.

The four injured people are being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and St Mary's Hospital in London, said Number 10.

Mr Cameron addressed senior ministers at Cabinet about the UK's response to last Friday's atrocity, when a total of 38 people died after 23-year-old student Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire in the resort of Sousse, and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was this afternoon chairing a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee.

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