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Speaking after he chaired COBR on Friday, Mr Hammond said:

I鈥檇 like to offer my condolences to the families and friends of the victims of these three shocking terrorist incidents in Tunisia, in Kuwait and in France. I鈥檝e chaired a COBR meeting this afternoon to look at our response to all three of these incidents and there will be a further COBR meeting tomorrow morning.

Turning to the incident in Tunisia which of most direct concern to people in this country because of the number of Britons involved. It鈥檚 clear that there have been a number of people killed. 皇冠体育app situation on the ground is still somewhat confused and we can鈥檛 be sure exactly how many but because of the nature of the composition of the tourist population in this part of Tunisia we have to assume that a high proportion of those killed and injured will have been British. We have had reports from families of those involved in the incident that allow us to confirm that at least five Britons have been killed in this incident but I should warn that we must expect that there will be more reports of fatalities as we establish the detail on the ground.

We have a consular team on the ground in Sousse. We have two further Rapid Response Teams going in overnight. We鈥檙e working with the Tunisian authorities to understand what they are doing in response to this incident and around tightening of security in the area but we鈥檙e talking to other national authorities, particularly the German authorities who have large numbers of tourists in the area and I鈥檝e just finished a conference call with the tour operators who operate the majority of flights into this area.

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