Gunmen have killed at least 27 people in an attack on two tourist hotels in a Tunisian town popular with British holidaymakers.
Tourists fled from the beach in Sousse to take refuge in hotel rooms after guns were fired on the beach.
One man said his son saw someone get shot as he raced back to the hotel from the sea.
Photographs seen by Sky News show one man in his 60s or 70s lying in a pool of blood in his swimming shorts.
One gunman has been killed, according to security sources cited by the Reuters news agency. The country's interior ministry says at least 27 people have been killed.
British tourist Gary Pine said: "We thought fire crackers were going off but you could see quite quickly what was going on.
"There was a mass exodus off the beach. My son was in the sea at the time and myself and my wife were shouting at him to get out and as he ran up he said I’ve just saw someone get shot.
Another holidaymaker, Susan Ricketts, said: "It sounded like a machine gun going off. There are people crying and going hysterical. We just came up to our room."
Tourists are now gathered in hotel reception areas and hiding in rooms as the situation develops.
One said: "People are running around the hotel. No-one has really been told what to do."
Holidaymaker John Yeoman has barricaded himself inside his hotel room using a bed and chair.
Meanwhile deadly explosions have hit a Shiite mosque in Kuwait's capital after Friday prayers.
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