Tourists advised to leave Tunisia as attack ‘likely’

Tourists in Tunisia are being advised to leave the country immediately as another terrorist attack in the area is ‘highly likely’.

The British Foreign Office has been monitoring the threat from terrorist groups in the area and said the threat of further attacks has ‘developed considerably’ in recent days. Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs has noted this change in advice from the British government and said it is urgently reviewing its own policy.

The warning comes after 38 people — three of which were Irish citizens and 30 of which were British — were killed when an Islamic State gunman stormed the beach at Sousse last month.