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C-17 To Evacuate Tunisia Attack Casualties

David Cameron says a national one minute's silence to remember the victims of the beach attack in Tunisia will be held at midday UK time on Friday, exactly a week after the shootings.

At least 18 British holidaymakers are known to have been murdered by an Islamist gunman but the number is expected to rise to around 30.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has travelled to Tunisia to meet survivors and officials.

In London, after MPs observed a minute's silence in the Commons, the Prime Minister said the British military are playing a key role in the aftermath of the attack.

A Royal Air Force C-17 which left Brize Norton is now in Tunisia, to ferry home injured tourists.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Prime Minister said the RAF C-17 plane, being deployed to evacuate casualties, may also repatriate bodies. He said:

"We are very happy to look at that. There are all sorts of other arrangements being put in place but I am keen that, as a nation, we show respect and our condolences ... and if they would like for us to try and bring back the bodies of their loved ones with dignity and respect that is something we can do."