The bodies of four Scottish tourists killed in the Tunisia terror attack were yesterday released to their families.
Jim and Ann McQuire, from Cumbernauld, and Billy and Lisa Graham, from Perthshire, were among 38 victims killed by gunman Seifeddine Rezgui when he opened fire in the resort of Sousse.
Yesterday West London Coroner's Court heard details of the beach massacre as inquests into their deaths were formally opened.
The coroner was told William Graham, 51, died from gunshot wounds to his pelvis while his wife Lisa, 50, died from gunshot wounds to her chest.
James and Ann McQuire, aged 66 and 63, were both fatally shot in the chest.
Their bodies were repatriated back to London for post-mortems to be carried out and will now be taken to Scotland, at the families' request. They were all formally identified by their dental records.
Chinyere Inyama, senior coroner for West London, said the victims' bodies will be released to their families and authorised transportation to Scotland.
"I'm going to suspend the investigation pending completion of parallel investigations in both Tunisia and the UK," he said.
The inquest hearing came as the final five bodies of the 30 Britons murdered in the attack, which took place on Friday 26 June, arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in an RAF C-17 aircraft yesterday.
The coffins carrying Lisa Burbidge, Stuart Cullen, Christopher Dyer, Bruce Wilkinson and Claire Windass were loaded on to hearses and taken in convoy to the same coroner's court.
The first inquests into the deaths of the eight British victims have now been opened and adjourned, during which Detective Sergeant David Batt of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command described how the shootings lasted around 30 minutes.
"Tourists were indiscriminately targeted by the gunman," he said in a statement read during the hearings.
"The gunman was shot by security services."
The bodies of the victims were moved to the central mortuary in Tunis after they were killed, he added.
"Senior UK police identification managers have assisted in Tunisia and in the UK to oversee the identification process," he said.
Batt said 275 witness accounts have been taken by police so far, and more than 1,200 potential witnesses have returned to the UK.
"Accounts are being taken from those who are deemed significant," he added.
On Friday, a minute's silence was held across the UK in memory of the victims of the Tunisia shooting.
Gunman Rezgui - who is known to have had links to Islamic State or Daesh - was shot dead following the attack.
Tunisian authorities have since arrested several people on suspicion of helping him.
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