[ARABNEWS] Hundreds of shocked tourists disembarked Friday in Spain after their luxury cruise was cut short by a massacre in a Tunisian museum that killed 12 of their fellow passengers.Of the more than 3,000 passengers who had sailed on the cruise liner MSC Splendida, 25 did not return: 12 were killed in the attack and 13 injured when gunnies stormed the museum in Tunis on Wednesday.
"They started shooting at the tourists. Anyone they found, they shot at, without mercy," one passenger who witnessed the attack, Jose Lluis Cusido, mayor of the town of Vallmoll west of Barcelona, told news hounds after disembarking.
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claimed it had carried out the attack, which killed 21 people.
Victoria Bronskaya, a 33-year-old tour guide from Belarus, was on a bus parked outside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis along with her mother when the attackers struck.
"We threw ourselves to the floor and they started shooting at the bus," she told AFP. "I wasn't even afraid. You just think about saving yourself. I shouted 'God save me' in Russian."
As she and others cowered inside, the gunnies shot two other tourists trying to board the bus. The dead bodies blocked the door of the vehicle. "That is why the terrorist could not get on board," Bronskaya said.
Newlyweds Francisco Buciegas and his wife Inma, from Cordoba, stepped off shocked after their honeymoon was cut short. "The whole thing was really awful. It made us really anxious," Inma, who is four months pregnant, told AFP, trying not to cry.