British police helping the Tunisian authorities investigate the beach massacre that left 30 Britons dead said they were linking it to an earlier attack on a Tunis museum.
The Britons were among 38 holidaymakers gunned down at a beach hotel near Sousse on June 26, three months after a shooting at the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis in March. Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group.
“The attack at the Bardo museum which left 22 dead, including one British woman, is now being linked to the Sousse murders,” said Commander Richard Walton, head of counter-terrorism at London’s Metropolitan Police.
He said he could not give further details because the investigation was still live.
“I can confirm that a team of officers, led by a senior detective from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, are working closely with the Tunisian authorities on both investigations and we have advised the coroner of the connection between the two,” he said.
Tunisian authorities have previously said that the gunman in Sousse received training in Libya at the same time as the two men behind the Bardo attack and may well have known each other, although they could not confirm that.