Tunisia arrests eight with 'direct links' to beach massacre

Tourists react at the site of the attack by a jihadist gunman killing dozens on the beach in front of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port el Kantaoui, on the outskirts of Sousse south of the capital Tunis, on June 30, 2015

Tunis

Tunisian security forces have arrested eight people, including a woman, suspected of having direct links to the jihadist killing of 38 foreign tourists at a beach resort, a minister said Thursday.

"Eight people with direct links to the carrying out of the operation, including a woman, have been arrested," Kamel Jendoubi, the minister in charge of government relations with civil society, told a press conference.