TUI reaches settlement with relatives and survivors of 2015 Tunisia terrorist attack

TUI has reached a legal settlement with the relatives of the victims and survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack against a beach resort in Tunisia.

Eighty persons including dozens of Britons accused the travel agent of failing to arrange for adequate security at the resort.

"The claimants have fought tirelessly to understand how the attack happened and to seek to ensure that lessons have been learned so that other families are not affected by similar tragedy," TUI and law firm Irwin Mitchell, which represented the victims, said in a joint statement, the Guardian reported.

"Tui has worked collaboratively with the claimants and their representatives, Irwin Mitchell, to reach a settlement without admission of liability or fault and in recognition of the wholly exceptional circumstances of the case, and in the hope that it will go some way to assisting the claimants."

The attack on the Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel complex cost the lives of 30 persons including 30 Britons.

That claim floundered after a judge ruled that the deaths were unlawful and little could have been to avoid them.

However, it was followed by a civil claim for damages estimated at £10m claiming that Tui had brushed aside warnings of an imminent attack.

The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.