‘An attack upon the nests of fornication, vice and disbelief in God’: ISIS’s chilling words after Tunisian massacre which killed 38 as they warn ‘worse is to follow’

From the Daily Mail

ISIS extremists have claimed the massacre which left 38 dead was an ‘attack upon the nests of fornication, vice and disbelief in God’ – as they warned ‘worse is to follow’.

The threat accompanied a picture of the man ISIS claim was behind the assault on innocent holidaymakers, who they name as Abu Yahya Qayrawani.

It is thought this is jihadi name of the killer fatally shot by authorities after Friday’s attack, a 23-year-old aviation student called Seifeddine Rezgui, who was armed with an assault rifle and grenades. The statement accompanying the picture added: ‘Our brother, the soldier of the Caliphate, Abu Yahya al Qayrawani, reached his target the Imperial hotel despite the security measures.’

Sky report the statement goes on to say he had attacked a ‘bordel’ and killed 40 ‘infidels’.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said Rezgui was not previously known by authorities, and came from the town of Gaafour in the governorate of Siliana and had been a student at Kairouan university.

A second gunman is reported to have escaped, but details remain unclear.

Eyewitness accounts say Rezgui was seen laughing and joking among the midday bathers and sunseekers, looking like any other tourist. But it was claimed he was carefully selecting the victims he would murder with a Kalashnikov hidden in his parasol.