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Cruise lines stop Tunisia visits after museum attack

A unidentified relative of a victim of the attack, centre, 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, centre, 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, centre, 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 3 min read

ROME (AP) – Two cruise lines suspended visits to Tunisia on Thursday after 17 passengers from their ships were killed in the museum attack, delivering an immediate economic blow to the North African country.

Passengers of Mediterranean cruise lines Costa Crociere and MSC Cruises were visiting the National Bardo Museum when gunmen stormed it Wednesday.

MSC said 12 of its guests were killed – three French, three Japanese, two Spanish, two Colombian, one British and one Belgian. Costa said five of its passengers were killed – four Italians and a Russian. In addition, MSC reported 13 passengers injured, while Costa reported eight injured.

On Thursday morning, both the MSC Splendida and Costa’s Fascinosa ship left Tunisia with their remaining passengers, bound for Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, respectively.

Costa said it would pay to fly passengers home if they didn’t want to continue with the cruise. MSC said it was suspending Tunisian ports of call for the rest of the 2015 summer season, with its ships docking instead in Malta, Palma de Mallorca, Sardinia or Corfu, Greece.