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Tunisia sees European tourist numbers rebound decade after attack

European visitors to Tunisia are rebounding after a slump caused by an Islamic State attack 10 years ago. © FETHI BELAID / AFP

Sousse (Tunisia) (AFP) – Ten years after a beach attack that killed 30 Britons and delivered a crippling blow to Tunisia's tourism industry, European holidaymakers are finally returning in what authorities hope will be record-breaking numbers.

In June 2015, a Tunisian university student slipped a rifle out of a beach umbrella and opened fire on vacationers outside a hotel in Sousse, about 140 kilometres south of the capital.

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