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Tunisia hotel gunman trained in Libya jihadist camp: government

Tunisian gunman who carried out a deadly attack on a hotel last Friday

Tunis: The Tunisian gunman who carried out a deadly attack on a hotel last Friday trained in a jihadist camp in Libya last year, Tunisia's government said on Tuesday.

The death toll from the assault on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular resort town of Sousse was revised down on Tuesday to 38 from a previously given 39. Most of the victims were British tourists.

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