New video has emerged of Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui walking along the shore carrying his automatic rifle.
The footage shows him on the seemingly empty beach unchallenged by security forces, tourists or hotel staff.The 23-year-old - shot dead 38 people, including 30 Britons - frequently glances over his shoulder and at one point appears to take a mobile phome from his pocket and glance at the screen.
The footage was filmed by a Czech tourist from a hotel room balcony after he fled the beach in Sousse two weeks ago.
"I saw a man on the beach with a machine gun. He started shooting, but I luckily managed to escape," the tourist, identified only as DrahomÃr, said.
"The worst thing was that the people who had been shot lived. I saw a lady, how she wanted to get up," he said.
At one point during the video Rezgui appears to take a phone from his pocket and look at the screen.
After the gunman walks out of sight behind some trees, Drahomir heard a loud explosion and more gunfire, he told the iDNEZ.cz news website.
The video emerged as Rezgui's parents told Sky News he must have been brainwashed.
"They got to my son. They used him and they framed him for the crime," his mother said.
"I can’t imagine he could carry out such an operation? He was carrying his weapon and was just walking. He didn’t fire it. I want to know who fired and then framed him," she added.
British and Irish citizens have been told to leave Tunisia after the UK Foreign Office warned more terror attacks were "highly likely".
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "Since the attack in Sousse the intelligence and threat picture has developed considerably, leading us to the view that a further terrorist attack is highly likely.
"The Tunisian investigation into those behind the Sousse attack and that on the Bardo museum earlier this year is ongoing and the Tunisians have made clear they want to track down further individuals who they suspect may have links to this attack."
Islamic State, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, has claimed it was behind the beach massacre, which has forced Tunisia to deploy about 3,000 armed police in tourist areas such as hotels and beaches.
Five Islamist militants were killed in fighting with security forces in the mountains near the central town of Gafsa on Friday, a security source told the Reuters news agency.
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