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Some Tunis museum attack victims identified

A unidentified relative of a victim of the attack, center, is escorted at the morgue of the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Authorities said more than 20 were killed after an attack on a major museum in the Tunisian capital, and some of the gunmen may have escaped. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) A unidentified relative of a victim of the attack, center, is escorted at the morgue of the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Authorities said more than 20 were killed after an attack on a major museum in the Tunisian capital, and some of the gunmen may have escaped. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

By Associated Press March 19, 2015 3 min read

PARIS (AP) – Officials, families and media reports have named some of the 18 foreign tourists killed in the Tunis museum attack. Here is a partial list of the victims who have been identified so far.

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COLOMBIA

Javier Camelo, 28, and his mother, Miriam Martinez. Camelo’s father and Martinez’s husband said he survived by a miracle. “These are things you never anticipate,” retired Colombian army Gen. Jose Arturo Camelo told The Associated Press. “I’m in a very bad state.” Javier Camelo also held Australian citizenship and lived in Sydney, where he worked for American Express. He had recently finished an MBA degree in Madrid and travelled to Tunisia with his parents and a brother to celebrate his graduation, according to press reports in Colombia. The family arrived on the cruise ship MSC Splendida.

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