A MUM-OF-TWO has described how she and her family barricaded themselves in a hotel bathroom as bullets smashed through windows during the horrific Tunisian terrorist attack.

Katie Spencer, 24, huddled with her children and fiancé while ISIS shooter Seifeddine Rezgui massacred tourists with explosives and a Kalashnikov rifle.

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She was so petrified the family remained holed up in the hotel suite room for 10 hours before being given the all clear by security services.

A total of 38 people were killed on the beach near Sousse with the total of British fatalities expected to rise to more than 30.

Rezgui was shot dead at the scene but some witnesses have described seeing a second gunman firing during the massacre.

The Blackburn College student said she took refuge in the Soviva Resort Hotel with her partner Mark Turner, 27, his brother Mick, 31, and her two sons Noah, four, and Oliver, one, as shots were fired.

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They were joined by close family friends from Blackburn Nathan Chapman, 21, his mum, Paula Newton, 44, stepdad Mathew Newton, 34, and sister Hannah Newton, 10.

In the same attack Darwen mum Carol Wearing, 46, was hit by either bullets or chunks of metal and is still recovering in Royal Blackburn Hospital after being flown back home.

Her daughter Naomi, 18, was peppered with shrapnel in her back and legs after being blasted by a grenade and is also in the hospital.

Katie, of St George’s Avenue, Blackburn, said: “I wasn’t too far away from the hotel when I heard the first shot and I just ran back to the pool where my children and partner were.

“I have never screamed so loud before in my life.

“We raced into the hotel reception and that’s when Owen Richards, the boy who lost three members of his family, burst in covered in blood and he looked in complete shock.”

The family, along with their friends who had been on the way to the beach, fled to a hotel bedroom before crawling into a marble bathroom while bullets smashed through the windows.

She and the children remained in the hotel suite for 10 hours before the area was given the all-clear.

Katie said: “I have never felt so fearful for my life before.

“It has affected us all. I just can’t believe what happened and I feel so sad for everybody whose family members were killed or hurt.”

Nathan, a former St Bede’s Catholic High School student who lives in Taylor Close, Blackburn, said: “We ran up the stairs and went into the room and shut the door.

Then we barricaded it with chairs and a table when we heard the noises from outside.

“We then went into the bathroom and blocked the door and we had to put our hands over the babies’ mouths to stop them crying.

“We stayed in there for around 15 to 20 minutes then went back into the room and found an English TV channel to see what had happened.

“We then heard the military helicopter and trucks arriving and I went to reception to see what was going on. We stayed in the bedroom because it wasn’t safe to leave. It was much later we got the all-clear.

“It was just unbelievable because it could so easily have been us on the beach. If we had been two minutes earlier we would have been there and in the middle of it.

“When we heard the shots we just turned around and ran back inside the hotel. Everybody was panicking and running around.

“We went up to the room and people were falling down the stairs because they were trying to get up out of the way too quickly.”

Katie, whose holiday had been changed to Tunisia from Spain at the last minute by Jet2 Holidays, said: “We were not even supposed to be in the country.

“It was only a late change of plan and we should have been safe in Spain.

“My four-year-old is suffering from the trauma and I hope that my one-year-old did not take anything in from the experience.”