People in the Tunisian resort city of Sousse have held a demonstration to condemn the recent terrorist attack that claimed dozens of lives in the popular tourist destination.

Late on Saturday, the protesters gathered near the hotel that came under the terrorist attack on Friday, and then marched through the streets of Sousse to express solidarity with the families of the victims.

The demonstrators, who were holding candles, chanted slogans against terrorism.

A separate anti-terrorism protest rally was also held in the Tunisian capital of Tunis.

On Friday, a gunman opened fire and killed at least 38 people on the beaches of Sousse on the northern Mediterranean coast.

The victims were mostly European tourists. At least 36 others were also wounded in the shooting, which was claimed by the Takfiri ISIL terror group.

Tunisia’s Interior Ministry has identified one attacker as Seif al-Din Rezgui, who was also killed in an exchange of fire with security forces. It is not known, however, if and how many others were involved.

The Friday shooting was the second attack that targeted foreign tourists in Tunisia this year. In March, 22 people, mainly foreigners, were killed after militants attacked Bardo museum in Tunis. The March attack was also claimed by the ISIL extremists.

Two other countries, meanwhile, witnessed acts of terror on Friday.

In Kuwait, at least 27 worshipers were killed and more than 220 others injured in a bomb attack in a Shia mosque in the capital Kuwait City on Friday.

Separately, a man rammed a car into a gas factory in the Isère region near Grenoble in southeastern France, causing a blast that wounded two people. He also decapitated his former employer and pinned the severed head to the factory’s gates.

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