Eyewitnesses claim more than one gunmen in Sousse attack

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Eyewitnesses have claimed the Tunisian beach massacre may have been carried out by more than one attacker as authorities continue to quiz seven suspected associates of the gunman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities say Rezqui acted alone during the rampage in the resort of Sousse but had accomplices who supported him before&comma; providing him with weapons and logistical support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But British tourists staying in the north African country claim they saw a second man carrying a gun and roaming the resort&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steve Johnson&comma; a retired police officer&comma; was on holiday with his wife Valerie and fellow ex-officer Michael Perry and wife Angela&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the Daily Mirror&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We were on the beach when I heard gunshots and screaming and I told people to ’run’ and got off the beach as fast as I could&period; We were really close and I could hear the constant noise of an automatic weapon&period; I saw a man in red shorts machine-gunning someone on a sun lounger&period; He was 20 yards away from us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We ran across wasteland and into a spa and hid in the basement while gunshots and grenades and everything was going off around us&period; After about 20 minutes we crept up to the third floor and we could see him shooting people around the pool&period; It was 40 minutes later when a Tunisian policeman came to get us and he took us through a corridor from the spa to the hotel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On the floor was a body&comma; covered mainly with a sheet&comma; but I could see he was the right build and colouring of the shooter I had seen&period; And he had red shorts on &&num;8230&semi; Mick had seen both gunmen and we are sure there were two of them&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;image219&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;image219&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Police arriving at the scene" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-76477" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Perry told the paper he had seen the bare-chested gunman running with a weapon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When he asked a police officer what had happened to the attacker&comma; he was reportedly told&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We shot him”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rezqui&comma; dressed in black&comma; appeared to be alone in the video footage of the atrocity that has emerged so far&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The seven people in custody were arrested in at least three different cities and taken for questioning in the capital Tunis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A total of 38 people&comma; 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