TWO Bromham couples caught up in the Tunisian massacre have spoken of their terror as they fled from a machine gun wielding fanatic who went on a killing spree.

Terrorist Seifeddine Rezgui killed John Welch and Eileen Swannack as they lay on the beach.

He then headed towards the hotel RIU Bellevue where Steve Paget and his wife Paula and friends Paul and Emma Morse had minutes earlier been enjoying a drink by the pool.

Mr Paget, 49, a director of Bromham kitchen firm McCarron, where Mr Morse also works, said: “When the hotel staff told us to run we headed for a garden next to the pool.

“I was worried that if we went into the reception we’d be easy targets so to begin with we hid behind some trees.

“But then some of the staff we’d got to know came out and told us the gunman was in the grounds and we had to go inside. We all went up to a bedroom and locked the door. We were terrified.”

The couples, who both have two daughters in their 20s, managed to call their children in England to let them know they were safe.

After about an hour they saw a large number of police and soldiers on the beach and felt a bit safer.

Mr Paget: “Some staff came to our door and told us the man had been shot.”

The couples decided not to try to fly home early as they feared the coach loads of British guests might attract more attacks.

Mr Paget said: “We just stayed in our rooms for the rest of the time and then flew back to Bristol on Sunday as planned.

“It is only now that we are back that it is really starting to hit home about what happened.”