.Sally Adey has named as British victim of yesterday's barbaric shooting
- .She was a passenger on board the luxury cruise ship MSC Splendida
- .Her husband receiving support from British Consulate in the capital Tunis
- .Survivors have described the chaos of a massacre that left 18 tourists dead
- .A Spanish survivor said the gunmen began shooting 'anything that moved'
- .Other tourists watched on as their loved ones were shot dead beside them
- .A Colombian father survived the shooting after seeing wife and child killed
- .The death tolls is 23: Three Tunisians, the two gunmen, and 18 tourists
British mother-of-two Sally Jane Adey was killed in yesterday's Tunisian terror attack while on a dream cruise with her husband, who was unharmed in the massacre, it was revealed today.
Mrs Adey, 57, was aboard the MSC Splendida which had docked in Tunis and was among at least 23 people killed by two gunmen during a sightseeing trip the city's Bardo National Museum.
Her death was confirmed by the Foreign Office this morning and her husband is believed to be safe and receiving support from the British Consulate.
Sally lived in the large detached home in a hamlet outside Wolverhampton with her solicitor husband Robert, 52, who is a partner for a law firm in Birmingham.
The couple have two children, Molly, 18, and Harry, 23, who are not believed to be on the cruise.
News of her death comes as survivors recall harrowing accounts of the attack, in which they were forced to smear themselves in others' blood to play dead and watched on as their loved ones were gunned down beside them.
Tragedy: Sally Jane Adey, 57, left, was murdered in the Tunis terror attack while on holiday with her husband Robert, right, who was unharmed in the massacre that left at least 23 dead
Briton Sally Jane Adey, 57, was killed in the attack while on a holiday cruise which had docked in Tunis while on holiday with her husband Rob, right, who survived
A close friend today paid tribute to the 'much-loved daughter, wife and mother'.
Julia Holden, a partner in Birmingham-based Shakespeares Solicitors, where Mrs Adey's husband Robert was also a partner, said: 'The family are devastated by her loss. They are also saddened for others who have lost people they love, and for those who have been hurt.'
Mrs Adey once described her passions as 'family, history and weekends away.'
Posting a profile on website BeeMee.com, she listed her 'loves' as 'family, cooking, flowers, history, watching sport with my husband - golf, rugby, cricket, motor racing. Weekends away with friends.'
She added that her 'hates' included 'spiders, liver and enclosed spaces.'
Under the category for 'self-description' she wrote: 'That's tough! Short and tubbier than I'd like to be. Trying to get a bit fitter before it's too late. People say I'm sensible and well organised - that all sounds very boring - sorry - in my fitness work I like boxing though - perhaps a bit more interesting?'
As well as being a solicitor specialising in company and commercial law, Sally is also a director for Barber Farms Ltd in Scothern, Lincolnshire, alongside her brother Michael Parrinder Johnson.
Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the terror attacks in which Mrs Adey died as an 'appalling and brutal outrage'.
MSC Cruises, which runs the MSC Splendida tours, also said it was offering support to Mrs Adey's husband in the wake of her death.
Mrs Adey (pictured left and right) once described her passions as 'family, history and weekends away'
A spokesman said: 'MSC Cruises can confirm that British passenger, Sally Adey, was tragically killed in yesterday’s terrorist atrocity in Tunis.
'Her husband is receiving support from the MSC Cruises customer care team in Tunis and we will be offering all possible support to him and his family.'
There were 79 British passengers and 10 Irish passengers on the ship, all of whom are now accounted for.
One survivor of the attack, identified only as Maryline, has now told France.info how she splashed herself with victims' blood in a desperate attempt to play dead and avoid the attentions of the two gunmen.
She explained how she was saved when the group she was huddling with were shot at and the person in front of her hit in the head.
Terrified the terrorists would return, she and the others began smearing victims' blood all over their bodies.
'We were still alive, so we thought it would be best to pretend to be dead and smear blood all over ourselves in case they returned.'
Other survivors of the Tunisia massacre have described how the two militants gunned down 'anything that moved' on the busy museum plaza as family members watched their loved ones being slaughtered beside them.
Souheil Alouini, a Tunisian member of parliament, lays flowers at a blood-stained pavement at the museum
A special forces officer stands guard outside the museum, where a police cordon sections off the bloody evidence of yesterday's massacre
The bloody scene of the killings (pictured) was today cordoned off as officials stood guard
Tunisian forensic investigators work at the museum in a bid to extract clues from the scene of the killings
Hostages flee the museum during the Tunisian special forces raid which ended in the death of both gunmen
An injured man is stretchered to hospital after being wounded in the terrorist attack yesterday
Officials cover bodies at the scene of the shooting at Bardo museum in Tunisia where at least 18 foreigners were killed
Bandages are wrapped around a victim's hand as she is carried from the area
One injured woman is stretchered from the scene after being caught up in the shooting in Tunisia which left at least 18 dead
Witness accounts have revealed a Colombian father watched his wife and child being shot dead beside him and a Japanese mother left unable to move when hit in the neck alongside her badly wounded daughter.
The terrifying accounts of yesterday's shooting have emerged as Tunisian authorities vow to wage a war against terror in the wake of the calculated onslaught, which claimed the lives of 18 tourists and wounded more than 40.
They have now arrested nine people considered part of the terror 'cell' responsible, with four of those thought to be 'directly linked' to the attack.
The tourists were visiting the popular Bardo National Museum in Tunis yesterday when they were killed by the two gunmen. Three Tunisians also died, as well as the two attackers. At least 40 more visitors were wounded.
A neighbour of Mrs Adey today expressed her 'horror' at her death.
Annette Crawshaw, 73, who lives three doors down from Mrs Adey, near Shifnal, Shropshire, said: 'It is so tragic. I can't imagine the pain he and his family are going through.
'They are a lovely family. I last spoke to Sally at Christmas time. She seemed delighted to be spending time with her family.
'I've lived pretty much next door to her and her family for ten years. There are only a few houses here so we all look out for one another.
'I was absolutely shocked when I heard the news of her death. You never imagine someone you live near would ever be mixed up in such horror.
'She was a solicitor in Birmingham and was very often out early and back late but whenever I saw her she was friendly and pleasant. Her family were lovely.'
Terry Holmes, 66, a retired computer security worker, has lived in the house next door to Mrs Adey for more than ten years.
He said: 'It's not the first cruise they've been on, but she said this one was a Mediterranean cruise. I know they had been planning it for a while and Sally was really looking forward to having a break with Rob.
'The daughter is at university down south and is about 20 and the son lives away from home. We were going to look after Sally's property while she was away.
'They were lovely people. It's a bit hard to talk about. We were as close as neighbours can be, because we're all out of the way here. She was a very nice person, a homely person.'
Meanwhile, Witnesses to the massacre described how the attackers, wearing military clothing and armed with assault rifles, indiscriminately gunned down visitors departing tour buses in the area before entering the building to take more than 100 people hostage.
And two terrified Spanish hostages - one of which is four months' pregnant - have this morning been discovered having overnight in the museum.
Josep Lluis Cusido, mayor of the small Spanish town of Vallmoll, was at the museum for a wedding anniversary trip with his wife.
'We saw a bunch of people leaving a vehicle and they started shooting everyone walking down the plaza at that moment, Cusido told Spain's Cadena Ser radio station.
'After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, shooting at anything that moved.
'I managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there.'
A Japanese survivor, 35-year-old Noriko Yuki, said: 'I was crouching down with my arms over my head, but I was shot in the ear, hand and neck,' she told Japanese broadcaster NHK from her hospital bed.
'My mother beside me was shot in the neck. Mother couldn't move by herself when the police came over,' she added.
Candles and a placard reading 'Tunisia remains standing' adorn the Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis
Protesting Tunisians hold signs that read 'no to terrorists' in the wake of yesterday's killings
Candles are lit at the entrance to the museum, where more than 20 died and 44 were wounded yesterday
The two Colombians killed yesterday were a mother and child who were enjoying a family holiday. The father survived, the foreign ministry in Bogota said.
The victim from Australia has been identified as a joint Australian-Colombian national who only graduated from university last week, Fairfax Media reported.
Javier Camelo was on a Mediterranean cruise with his parents to celebrate his graduation when he was gunned down. His mother was also killed in the attack.
However, it has not been confirmed if they were the Colombian victims previously described, with Tunisian authorities listing both Australian and Colombian deaths in the attack.
Mr Camelo was photographed with his graduation certificate at the Madrid university last week and his last picture posted to Facebook was of him and his parents in Italy just days ago.
Mr Camelo started working at Sydney University in 2010 before taking a job as an analyst at American Express in Sydney.
He moved to the company's UK office for a year before returning to Sydney.
'I can't believe it was just a few short days ago we shared one of the biggest moments of our lives, and we were talking hopefully about the future. There's never enough time, but we're honoured to have known you and shared part of our lives with you. Rest in peace, my friend,' a classmate wrote on Facebook.
Tunisians light candles outside the museum last night in a show of solidarity for the victims of the killing
More than 1,000 Tunisians gathered outside the building in a late-night vigil to pay their respects to those murdered
Locals angrily protest in response to the attacks which targeted Tunisia's tourism industry
Armed Tunisian soldiers stand guard outside the museum after the death of 18 tourists
As the international community denounced yesterday's assault on the popular museum in Tunis, President Beij Caid Essebsi vowed Tunisia would fight 'to our last breath'.
'I want the Tunisian people to understand that we are in a war against terrorism and that these savage minorities do not frighten us,' said Essebsi, who visited some of the dozens being treated for wounds in a Tunis hospital.
'We will fight them without mercy to our last breath.'
French tourist Fabienne recounted how she and others hid in one of the museum's galleries along with their guide.
'We couldn't see anything, but there must have been a lot of them. We were afraid that, at any moment, they would come kill us,' she told France's BFM television.
Among the dead were five Japanese, four Italians, two Colombians and one each from Australia, France, Poland and Spain, in what the Tunisian Prime Minister said was a definitive toll.
Police officers march through the streets of Tunis in the wake of the deady attacks
Police officers stand guard yesterday outside the Tunisian parliament, which is located beside the museum where the attack unfolded
Survivors of the massacre run to safety as they are surrounded by responding Tunisian special forces
A victim of the attack is stretched to hospital amid the mayhem of the wholesale slaughter
However, differing figures were given by other governments and there was conflicting information over the breakdown, with some of the dead identified as joint nationals.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the claim that five Japanese had died was an 'error', stating that the toll stood at three dead and three injured.
Police killed the two gunmen and the authorities were still hunting for possible accomplices, said the prime minister.
The government announced more than 40 people were wounded, with Health Minister Said Aidi saying they included citizens of France, South Africa, Poland, Italy and Japan.
JAVIER CAMELO: SYDNEY RESIDENT KILLED A WEEK AFTER GRADUATING
The 28-year-old, who lived in Waterloo in Sydney, and his mother were among the 18 tourists killed when terrorists fired at them outside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis
A Sydney man who only graduated from university last week was shot dead alongside his mother when they stepped off a tour bus outside a Tunisian museum.
Javier Camelo was on a Mediterranean cruise with his parents - retired Colombian Army general José Arturo Camelo and Miriam Martinez Camelo - to celebrate his graduation when he was gunned down on Tuesday, Fairfax Media reports.
The 28-year-old, who lived in Waterloo in Sydney, and his mother were among the 18 tourists killed when terrorists fired at them outside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis.
Mr Camelo, a dual Australian-Colombian citizen, had just finished studying for his MBA via correspondence at the IE Business School in Madrid.
He was photographed with his graduation certificate at the Madrid university last week and his last picture posted to Facebook was of him and his parents in Italy just days ago.
Mr Camelo was on a Mediterranean cruise with his parents to celebrate his graduation when he was gunned down alongside his mother on Tuesday. They are pictured here in Italy days before the terror attack
Mr Camelo started working at Sydney University in 2010 before taking a job as an analyst at American Express in Sydney.
He moved to the company's UK office for a year before returning to Sydney.
A classmate wrote on Facebook: 'I can't believe it was just a few short days ago we shared one of the biggest moments of our lives, and we were talking hopefully about the future. There's never enough time, but we're honoured to have known you and shared part of our lives with you. Rest in peace, my friend.'
Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed his death in a joint statement with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop.
'Our consular officials have now confirmed that a dual Australian-Colombian citizen, who was a resident of NSW, was among the deceased,' the statement said.
'Our thoughts and prayers are with the man's family, to whom we will extend all consular assistance.'
Javier Camelo was pictured at his graduation in Spain last week with his parents, José Arturo Camelo and Miriam Martinez Camelo, before he was killed in Tunisia
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