John
01-16-2011, 04:51 PM
Efforts are continuing to return home the last Britons left in chaos-hit Tunisia.
More than 3,000 holidaymakers and ex-pats were evacuated from the north African country in the last 48 hours.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 ex-pats, independent travellers and small tour group holidaymakers remain in the country, according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
The FCO released the figures after sending over a team of civil servants to help search for British nationals and clarify precisely how many were left.
On Saturday night a 'rapid deployment force' of consular staff phoned hotels and went out searching for Brits, said an FCO spokesman.
Sunday has seen more flights returning from Tunisia after a new president was sworn in following days of killings and violent looting.
Some returning passengers compared the popular tourist spot to a war zone.
Angela Khalifa, 56, from Newhall, Derbyshire, was visiting her Tunisian husband's family but had to cut her holiday short by a day.
After jetting into Birmingham Airport, she said: "The banks had broken glass, and the big shops too, like a little war zone with the military all there now. I was a bit frightened coming back."
Source - Yahoo.
More than 3,000 holidaymakers and ex-pats were evacuated from the north African country in the last 48 hours.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 ex-pats, independent travellers and small tour group holidaymakers remain in the country, according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
The FCO released the figures after sending over a team of civil servants to help search for British nationals and clarify precisely how many were left.
On Saturday night a 'rapid deployment force' of consular staff phoned hotels and went out searching for Brits, said an FCO spokesman.
Sunday has seen more flights returning from Tunisia after a new president was sworn in following days of killings and violent looting.
Some returning passengers compared the popular tourist spot to a war zone.
Angela Khalifa, 56, from Newhall, Derbyshire, was visiting her Tunisian husband's family but had to cut her holiday short by a day.
After jetting into Birmingham Airport, she said: "The banks had broken glass, and the big shops too, like a little war zone with the military all there now. I was a bit frightened coming back."
Source - Yahoo.