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Italian police arrest man over Tunisia terror attack which killed former Black Country solicitor

Italian police have arrested a Moroccan man over the attack on Tunisia's Bardo museum that left 22 people dead, including Midlands mother-of-two Sally Adey.

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Mrs Adey, from Caynton, near Shifnal, a former solicitor who had worked in the Black Country, died in the shooting at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis on March 18. She had been on a Mediterranean cruise with her 52-year-old husband Robert, who survived the attack.

Today Italian prosecutor Bruno Megale told a news conference that Touil Abdelmajid was arrested on Tuesday evening at the home of his mother in Gaggiano, near Milan.

The accusations listed in the Tunisian arrest warrant include premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit attacks against the internal security of the state, belonging to a terrorist group and recruiting and training others to commit terrorist attacks, Mr Megale said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacking the Bardo, Tunisia's leading historical museum, which has a trove of Roman mosaics.

Gunmen opened fire on tourists getting out of buses and then entered the museum, apparently unimpeded, and fired on more tourists inside. Two gunmen were killed in a shootout with police. Four Italians were among the dead.

A number of people have been arrested in connection with the attack, but the Tunisian interior ministry has said the mastermind of the attack is still at large.

Mr Megale said Abdelmajid had been unknown to Italian authorities except for an expulsion order issued by Sicilian authorities in February.

Police were able to identify him in part after his mother reported that her son's passport was missing immediately after the Bardo attack.

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