British tourist killed in Tunis died of gunshot wounds to stomach and pelvis
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Version 0 of 1. A British tourist killed in a terror attack in Tunisia died of gunshot wounds to her stomach and pelvis, a coroner has heard. Sally Adey was killed in the shooting at the Bardo museum in Tunis on 18 March. Adey, a retired solicitor from Caynton, Shropshire, had been on a Mediterranean cruise with her husband Robert, 52, who survived the attack. At the opening of her inquest on Tuesday, the senior coroner for Shropshire, John Ellery, heard Adey’s husband identified her body at the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis the day after the attack. Coroner’s officer Julie Hartridge said Adey, who had two children, and her husband had disembarked from the MSC Splendida in Tunis before going to the museum. “It is reported the museum came under fire from gunmen and she received fatal gunshot wounds,” she added. Hartridge said a postmortem carried out in the UK on 25 March had established the provisional cause of death as “consistent with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and pelvis”. More than 20 people were killed in the attack, including 17 cruise ship tourists. Two gunmen were killed in a gun battle with security forces. Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack. On Sunday, the Tunisian government said another suspect implicated in the terror assault had been killed near the Algerian border. Ellery, opening the proceedings at Shrewsbury’s Shirehall, adjourned the hearing until 2 July. |