A TERRIFIED young Kidderminster couple have revealed how they ran for their lives in the Tunisia terror attack last week.

Matthew Preece and fiancé Daisy Earl, both 23, fled from a Tunisian beach in a tuk-tuk as a gunman killed tourists on a neighbouring beach.

The couple, who had only arrived at the popular holiday destination the day before for a week-long holiday, heard explosions and bangs as the shootings began at around midday on Friday.

They believe the gunman had walked past them earlier, before opening fire on a busier beach 200 yards away.

They ran for their lives, before escaping in a tuk-tuk to their nearby hotel, Kanta Resort.

Mr Preece said: “We were on a neighbouring beach about 200 yards away from where the shooting happened.

“We were sunbathing on the beach, which was around a five minute walk away from where everything happened. We believe he may have walked across the part of the beach where we were, but it was quiet at the time, as most people were at a snack bar, so he moved on.

“It was absolutely terrifying.

“We heard lots of bangs and explosions, but we didn’t know what was going on. There were so many people rushing about.

"We just ran for our lives and got into a tuk-tuk and went straight into our hotel.

“We were so scared, we were absolutely terrified. We just kept thinking it could have been us at any moment.

“When we got to our hotel people were everywhere. People were crying and really sad, and they just wanted to go home. Everyone just wanted to get out of the country.

“Everyone was panicking. No one knew where to go.”

The couple stayed in the hotel with little news until 7pm that evening when a Thomas Cook rep arrived and said he would keep them posted about a flight home.

“The only news we had was what was being reported on the television,” he added.

“I managed to ring my dad back home, and I asked him if it was true that there had been shootings, and he told me that it was.

“A Thomas Cook rep arrived at our hotel at around 7pm that evening and told us that everything was fine and to stay in the hotel and that he would let us know about flights home.

“I asked them to keep me updated and at around half two in the morning we were told we had a flight home.

“The emergency flight back to Manchester was set up by Thomas Cook and it was full to capacity.

“We had only arrived in the country in the early hours of Thursday morning and we were meant to be there for a week.”

They landed back in the UK on Saturday night and said they were glad to be home, but their thoughts were with those who had not been so lucky and their loved ones.

Mr Preece said: “We are both just so relieved to be back home and feeling safe.

“It was just so great to see our families; to be back with them is such a relief.

“But of course we feel for those who did not get the chance to come home to their families.

“It’s terrible, I can’t imagine it.”