A Fife couple who hid, terrified, in their hotel room after a gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beach are home safe with their families.
Carrie Haldane and boyfriend Steven McSorley, both 24, flew into Glasgow on Sunday.
Their hotel was five minutes’ drive from the scene of Friday’s massacre in Sousse, in which Seifeddine Rezgui killed 39 people.
They were sunbathing by their hotel pool when they learned of the terrorist attack by a student linked to Islamic State extremists. When they went to the hotel lobby tourists from other hotels began pouring in to seek cover, crying and screaming.
The hotel was locked and guests were advised to stay in their rooms and not use mobile phones.
Student Carrie, of Kinglassie, said: “It was scary. You hear about these things happening and this group on the news and, then, it is really close to you and you think: that could have been me.
“I spoke to a man in the airport who said he had been in the sea, unaware of what was happening, and when he returned to his sun lounger there was a bullet hole in his T-shirt. If he was still lying there he would have been dead.”
She and Steven, who lives in Glenrothes, were on the second-last day of a week’s break when the attack occurred. They were allowed to go outside again on Saturday but told to remain in the hotel grounds.
All flights were grounded on Friday and Saturday so the pair were relieved when their plane took off as planned on Sunday.
Steven’s parents, George and Christine, met them at Glasgow Airport and Carrie said: “Steven’s mum was just about crying when they picked us up.”
Carrie’s mum and dad, Elizabeth Feenie and Bill Haldane, had panicked when a neighbour told them of the attack on Friday afternoon.
They were able to get in touch with Carrie by text to check she was OK. Elizabeth said: “We are very glad to have her back home.”