Tunisian police seek accomplices

(ANSA) - Tunis, June 29 - Tunisian police on Monday were hunting for accomplices they believed helped a gunman who killed as many as 38 people at a beach resort before he was shot dead by authorities.
    As well, the Tunisian government said it had established a new tourist police unit to protect hotel resorts after the attack Friday in the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse, a popular holiday destination for tourists.
    Politicians said as many as 1,000 officers could be deployed for tourist protection.
    The Tunisian authorities were seeking accomplices of Seifeddine Rezgui, 24, according to interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui.
    Rezgui was a graduate of Tunisia's Kairouan University where he had been living with the other students.
    The gunman did not act alone, said Selma Elloumi Rekik, minister of tourism for Tunisia, in an interview with Radio Montecarlo.
    In Italy, police said that "maximum attention" would be paid to security in the Adriatic sea port of Ancona after the attack in Tunisia.
    Security officials said concerns were heightened further after attacks at roughly the same time in France and Kuwait.
    Security had already been increased after 22 people were killed in March at the National Bardo Museum outside Tunis - mostly tourists as in Friday's beach attack.
    The attack in France involved a man who said he killed his boss. The victim was decapitated and his head stuck on a post outside a gas factory near Lyon.
    There the attacker Yassin Salhi rammed his van into the US-owned Air Products factory in what President Francois Hollande said was a "terrorist" attack designed to blow up the whole building.
    At approximately the same time in Kuwait, a man blew himself up at a mosque, killing at least 27 people.