{"id":131204,"date":"2015-07-03T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131204"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:09:15","slug":"tunisia-attack-sousse-ceremony-to-remember-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131204","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia attack: Sousse ceremony to remember victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A special ceremony has been held in the Tunisian resort of Sousse to remember the 38 people killed in an Islamist attack a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia&#8217;s prime minister, diplomats, Tunisians and tourists gathered on the beach to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<p>A one-minute silence was held simultaneously in Sousse and across the UK, home to 30 of those killed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they have uncovered the network behind the attack and are holding eight suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Security has been stepped up at the beach and many people are still devastated by what happened a week ago, says the BBC&#8217;s Ben Brown in Sousse.<\/p>\n<p>Hotels and beaches are empty as thousands of tourists have already left the country following the attack, he says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width has-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/120F\/production\/_84032640_ci_grx-uyaaute-.jpg\" alt=\"null\" width=\"717\" height=\"403\" \/><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Most tourists left the country but a few have stayed behind<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid and the British ambassador Hamish Cowell laid wreaths on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunis government fears the attack, which jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has claimed, will destroy its tourism industry, the country&#8217;s biggest foreign currency earner.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have identified 28-year-old student Seifeddine Rezgui as the gunman who carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>They have also deployed 1,377 armed security agents at hotels and on beaches to guarantee the safety of people, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>In March, IS killed 22 people at the famous Bardo museum in Tunisia&#8217;s capital, Tunis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special ceremony has been held in the Tunisian resort of Sousse to remember the 38 people killed in an Islamist attack a week ago. Tunisia&#8217;s prime minister, diplomats, Tunisians and tourists gathered on the beach to pay their respects. A one-minute silence was held simultaneously in Sousse and across the UK, home to 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":131206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-131204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}