'Tell Our Children Their Daddy Loves Them'

A woman has told how her fiance used his body as a shield and told her to save herself as the Tunisia beach massacre gunman fired at them.

Sarah Wilson said Matthew James - who she lives with in Pontypridd, South Wales - was shot three times as he used his body to protect her.
She said the gas engineer was hit in his shoulder, chest and hip on the sunbeds at Sousse beach, but was now recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack and a shattered pelvis.
"He took a bullet for me. I owe him my life because he threw himself in front of me when the shooting started," she said.
"He was covered in blood from the shots but he just told me to run away. He told me: 'I love you babe. But just go - tell our children that their daddy loves them.'
"It was the bravest thing I've ever known. But I just had to leave him under the sunbed because the shooting just kept on coming.
"I ran back, past bodies on the beach to reach our hotel. It was chaos - there was a body in the hotel pool and it was just full of blood.
"You just can't explain how terrible it was. It was chaos with screaming and gunshots. I'm just so glad Matthew is alive because so many other people are dead."
The couple were among the first holidaymakers to speak of their horror after gunmen attacked a beach resort in Tunisia.
At least 38 people have been killed in the attack, in the town of Sousse on the country's east coast. At least five of the dead have been confirmed as Britons.
Amanda Roberts, from Swansea, said: "We were on the nearby beach when the attack took place. We originally heard a muffled sound and saw police on horseback.
"Scuffles took place, people jumping over walls and there was a sound of gunfire. Someone said 'run for your life!' and we just concentrated on getting back to our hotel safely.
"Also, my family has sustained injuries to our feet. Luckily we were able to receive treatment from a doctor. We're feeling very shaken but at least we're still alive."
Steve Johnson, who is staying at the Imperial Marhaba hotel, said: "We were just laying on the beach as usual ... and we heard what at first we thought was fireworks but it was soon pretty obvious that it was not fireworks, it was firearms being discharged, and people screaming and starting to run from along the beach towards us.
"Me and my friend said: 'That's guns, let's go' and we shouted to everybody around us who joined the sort of mass rush from the beach. People running in all directions around us."
He said the authorities were now "removing a number of bodies from around the pool area".
Elizabeth O'Brien, from Dublin, said she grabbed her two sons and they ran for their lives when they heard gunfire coming from one of the hotels.
"We were on the beach, my sons were in the sea and I just got out of the sea," she said.
"It was about 12 o'clock and I just looked up about 500 metres from me and I saw a (hot air) balloon collapse down, then rapid firing, then I saw two of the people who were going to go up in the balloon start to run towards me - because I thought it was fireworks," she told Irish broadcaster RTE.
"So, I thought 'oh my God, it sounds like gunfire', so I just ran to the sea to my children and grabbed our things and as I was running towards the hotel, the waiters and the security on the beach started saying 'run, run run!' and we just ran to our room, which is like a little bungalow.
"So we are actually trapped in our room."
Ms O'Brien said the Irish consul in Madrid, Spain, called her to say it was a terrorist attack in the hotel next door and told her to stay where she was.
"My travel agent told me to go to the reception to speak to the rep, but I'm afraid. I'm stuck in the room with my two sons, not knowing what's going on," she said.
Susan Rickett, who is staying at the Palm Marina Hotel, told Sky News: "My sister was talking to someone who had seen some people shooting and had shot someone on a sun bed but we don't know if that's true.
"It sounded like a machine gun going off... and there was a kind of explosion a little bit later.
"They're saying it's going on in the hotel next to us. Police were chasing some men, that's all I know."
Gary Pine, who is staying at the El Mouradi Palm Marina hotel, said: "My 22-year-old son had just gone back into the sea after a game of volleyball and then over to my left, about 100 yards away, we saw what we thought was firecrackers going off so we thought someone was celebrating.
"But you could see then quite quickly the panic that was starting to ensue from the next resort along from us, which is about 100 yards away, and so then people started exiting the beach pretty quickly, but only when you can start hearing bullets around your ears did you start to realise it was something more serious than firecrackers."
David Schofield, who heard an explosion while sunbathing by the pool, told Sky News: "We heard people saying there were guns on the beach and people were shooting on the beach.
"I don't know what's going on. I went to reception and they said the police have told us to get everyone inside."