A Watford woman was shot in the face as she clasped onto her dead husband during the beach resort terror attack in Tunisia, a national paper has reported.

Gina Van Dort, 30, was reportedly shot under the chin by the gunman, with the bullet exiting through her eye, while husband Chris Dyer, 32, is thought to have been shot in the head by AK47 rounds as the couple ran for cover into the Imperial Marhaba hotel garden.

Mrs Van Dort was due to be flown back to the UK overnight by the RAF with the remaining five British survivors of the holiday massacre.

The national press has reported that when Mrs Van Dort came round from emergency surgery, her facial injuries had left her unable to speak.

However, she wrote a note to hospital staff immediately asking for her wedding ring, which had been removed for the operation.