A TRAUMATISED woman from Malton has told how she fled the Tunisian terror beach and hid terrified in a hotel room for more than an hour - fearing her husband was dead.

Jacqui Walls also said she was convinced there was more than one lone gunman involved in Friday's terrorism attack in Sousse, in which 38 people died, having seen two men on a hotel roof firing down onto people below.

Mrs Walls, 58, speaking to The Press yesterday after flying home early with her husband, Steve, from their holiday at the Riu Belleview Park hotel, said she had told British police of her belief that there were at least three gunmen when she returned to Doncaster Airport on Saturday.

She said the nightmare started when she had been walking barefoot along the beach and heard a cracking noise.

"I thought at first it was machinery but then I saw smoke and sand and realised it was gunfire, coming from about 300 yards away, and I saw people running," she said.

"I ran to another hotel and we were taken by a housekeeper on all fours along a corridor until she opened a door into a suite and we could get inside. I had seen two men firing guns from a hotel roof and had to avoid being spotted going into the room.

"We hid in there for more than an hour. At one point, we could hear heavy footsteps from the corridor and I was scared it was a terrorist. At that stage, I didn't know what had happened to Steve."

As The Press reported on Saturday, Steve, 60, a former soldier, was helping wounded tourists and only fled when a gunman started shooting at him from just 50 yards away and then hid in a storeroom in his hotel.

Steve,66, said yesterday that he and Jacqui were physically unharmed but 'massively stressed,' and had slept very badly on Saturday night despite not having slept for 36 hours.

He praised tour operators Thomson, who he said had been 'absolutely fantastic' in their response to the attack.

"Within hours, they had laid on free flights for us to come home early if we wished, with free food and drink provided, and we were flown back to Doncaster early on Saturday. Counselling was offered, and we have been given a full refund for the holiday."

He said they had considered staying on for the rest of their two-week holiday but decided they were too stressed. "Someone dropping a cup or banging a door would have been too much."

Even so, he said he wouldn't hesitate before going back to Tunisia for another holiday. "We have been ten times and they are a lovely people. We met some of them on the beach before we came back and they were nearly in tears. I'd go back tomorrow."