Huddersfield holidaymaker Debbie Horsfall who was caught up in the Tunisian shooting has arrived safely back in the UK.

The 22-year-old and her friend Ellie Makin were lying on sun beds in the resort of Sousse when a gunman opened fire and they fled to safety.

The death toll in the terrorist attack at the beach resort on Friday currently stands at 38, with eight of the dead confirmed to be British.

Debbie was one of a thousand people who have since been evacuated. She arrived at Manchester Airport on Saturday morning.

Debbie said: "It was terrifying. You want to believe its not real. I didn't feel safe until I landed at Manchester this morning.

"The majority of people in our hotel chose to come home.

"Thompson were really helpful. At first they were unable to give us information because they didn't know.

"But we were told in the evening (Friday) that six coaches were coming and 10 aircrafts would be flying to Manchester, Doncaster and Gatwick for anyone who wanted to go home.

"I arrived in Manchester at 5.40 this morning."

Speaking of her ordeal she said: “My friend (Ellie) stood up and saw a man with the gun firing.

“We got up and ran, but we didn’t know where to go.

“We have only been here two days - we came on Wednesday. We went to back to our room but we didn’t feel safe."

Ellie said she saw a gunman pull a weapon from an umbrella right next to them on the beach while they were sunbathing.

“He was to the right of me because we were on the last sun bed on the beach. All of a sudden I just happened to look right and all I saw was a gun and an umbrella being dropped.

“Then he started firing to the right hand side of us. If he had fired to the left I don’t know what would have happened, but we were very lucky.”

Ms Horsfall added: “We were on the beach sunbathing, then the next thing we heard gunfire and Ellie shouted “gun, run” over and over.

“We got up and ran as fast as we could to our hotel reception. We just saw panic, everyone just got up and fled as soon as we realised it was gunfire.”

The pair ran back to their hotel where other residents had gathered in the foyer but were in danger again when a gunman fired shots into the building.

Ms Makin said. “A guy ran up into the hotel and started shooting again and everyone fled. He was just below us, if we’d have walked down the stairs we’d have met him halfway.

“We got split up. I ran to a room upstairs with somebody and their kids and we hid. We were told to go to our room even though it was ground floor near where the shooting was, but I refused.”

After the ordeal Debbie was able to reassure her mum Angela, who works at Thongsbridge Cricket Club, that she was fine, despite the terrifying shootout.

The Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba - scene of Tunisia shooting terror