Britons killed in Tunisia attack to get memorial

LONDON: The 30 British victims of last week’s Tunisian beach attack are to receive a permanent memorial funded by fines on banks, Prime Minister David Cameron announced.

There will be a separate site of remembrance for all Britons who have been victims of overseas terrorism, he added.

“Those who lost their lives in Tunisia last week were innocent victims of a brutal terrorist atrocity,” he said. “It is right that we mark and commemorate them and others murdered by terrorists overseas, appropriately and support the loved ones they have left behind in every way we can.”

The location and design of the memorial will be decided over the coming months, said Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood, whose brother Jonathan was killed in the Bali bombing of 2002.

The memorials will be funded by banking fines levied by the Financial Conduct Authority.

The final five British victims of the Tunisia beach shooting arrived home on Saturday.

Their coffins were taken in convoy to a London coroner’s court, where inquests into their deaths will be held. — AFP