VIDEO: Brave local chases down Tunisia gunman in effort to stop attack

New video footage shows hotel staff and locals in the Tunisia attack follow the gunman in an effort to stop him, with little regard for their own safety.

Video obtained by Sky News shows the panic as the killer, Selfeddine Rezgui, enters the hotel grounds in Sousse.

Gunfire and some sort of explosion can be heard as the cameraman – reported to be a hotel staff member – follows the killer, at one point taking a glass bottle from the bar as if to attack him from behind.

In the end, however, the staff member peeks from behind a wall as a shootout with police ended the attack.

38 people, including three Irish citizens, lost their lives in the attack, and 18 British citizens are also confirmed dead - a number which is expected to increase.

Husband and wife Laurence and Martina Hayes, both aged in their 50s, from the town of Athlone in Co Westmeath, were among the dead.

Mr Hayes was a schools transport inspector who had worked for Bus Éireann for the last 20 years. A company spokeswoman said Mr Hayes was “highly regarded on both a personal and professional level, by all his colleagues at Bus Eireann”.

Co Westmeath GAA tweeted a message of condolence to the family: “Sincere sympathy to the Hayes family (from) Athlone who suffered their tragic losses in the terror shooting in Tunisia.”

Lorna Carty, an Irish mother-of-two from Robinstown, Co Meath, also died in the attack.

Bishop of Meath Michael Smith paid tribute to Mrs Carty. He said she was the victim of a “senseless killing”.

He said: “Lorna worked here in Navan in one of the medical centres and is known to, and loved by, very many people.

“The brutal circumstances of Lorna’s death are sadly becoming more frequent.”

He added: “We extend our sympathy and our prayers to Lorna’s husband Declan, to her children Simon and Hazel and extended family and friends.”