A MOTHER injured along with her daughter in the Tunisia terror attack said she is struggling to come to terms with what happened.

Carol and Naomi Wearing were injured by a grenade blast as they walked to have lunch in Sousse.

The 46-year-old was told she could face an operation to remove shrapnel from her knee and foot but was sent home, with her daughter, from Royal Blackburn Hospital this week without going under the knife.

Still unable to walk, the Crown Paints worker faces six weeks off her feet as she recovers at her Astley Heights home.

She said: “They decided to leave it. The shrapnel shattered the bone in my foot, but they can't operate on it. It is hanging there at the minute. I can't walk on it or move it.

“Naomi is not too bad. She is a lot better than she was. She still has stitches to be taken out but they are healing well.”

And while Carol has been able to read newspaper articles and watch television reports on the Sousse massacre, she said Naomi, 18, who was peppered with shrapnel, has not been able to.

Carol said: “I am still in a state of shock — we both are. We cannot believe it. You do not believe something like this will happen to you.”

As she continues to process last Friday’s horrifying events, one thing is becoming increasing clear for Carol: Seifeddine Rezgui was not the only Islamic State gunman involved.

She said: “There was definitely more than one. For the number of people who have been killed, the timescale and where I got injured, there had to be more than one. He (Rezgui) could have not have been in all these places at one time.”

It is believed Rezgui — who was shot dead by police — had accomplices who helped him to carry out the atrocity. The Tunisian government said it had made a number of arrests.

Yesterday, East Lancashire paid tribute to the victims of the Tunisia terror attack by observing a minute’s silence.

Muslims attending mosques, schoolchildren, emergency-services workers and council staff were among those who paused at noon to reflect on last Friday’s atrocity and remember the 30 British people who were killed in the massacre.

Among the East Lancashire schools observing the minute’s silence was Fisher More Roman Catholic High School in Colne.

Business manager Edwina Yates said: “Our children have a well-developed sense of respect and what is going on in the world. This was such an appalling event that it was a natural thing for us to take part in.”

Chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, Abdul Hamid Qureshi, said: “Our prayers do not involve silence but this (the massacre) was made a topic of the prayers. We all expressed our pain and sorrow. We are all together in this.”