Tunisia Massacre: Families must wait to bury Tunisia dead

Relatives of the three Irish people killed in last week’s terrorist attack in Tunisia face an agonising wait to bring their bodies home as the task of formal identification continues.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was too soon to know when it would be possible to make repatriation arrangements.

“Repatriation can only commence after the completion of the formal identification process. The process of full and formal identification of the deceased is continuing in Tunis and given the scale of the tragedy it is expected that it may yet take a period of time before it is fully completed,” the department said.