A British survivor of the Tunisia terror attack has opened up about the horrifying moment a shooter tried to enter the room she was hiding in.

Millie Twells, 19, has had her first seaside trip for the first time in four years since the atrocity.

Isis fanatic Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people – including 30 British citizens – at Port El Kantaoui on June 26, 2015.

Millie, her mum Zoe and stepdad Paul Thompson had only been in the African country for 36 hours when the attacker struck.

They were near the pool enjoying aerobics and playing darts when Zoe heard ‘machine gun fire’.

A drugged up Rezgui, armed with a Kalashnikov and throwing grenades, began killing sunbathers on the beach before moving towards the resort hotel.

Zoe describes how they all became separated before she fled inside the hotel where Millie had also taken refuge.

The terrified teenager barricaded herself in an office with other tourists, when Rezgui tried opening the door before moving on.

‘Everyone else was laying there waiting to be killed and I was trying to figure out how to get out,’ said Millie, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

‘I remember being laid on my front and it felt like I was moving off the ground because of how fast my heart was beating.

‘I kept telling myself that if I died at least it would be quick and wouldn’t hurt.’

Eventually Rezgui moved on and was shot dead by police near another hotel where Paul had taken cover.

The family were reunited and flown back hours later on special charter.

Millie said: ‘I felt guilty I’d survived when other people hadn’t.

‘I don’t feel it as much anymore because now I accept it.

‘It was me not being able to save other people.

‘I was in an office room and there were people outside that were screaming and I couldn’t do anything to help.

‘I felt “why have I survived? I had to be silent while other people were dying.’

The teen lost 1.5 stone and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

She said: ‘I was in shock for maybe a month afterwards then I had my first panic attack on August 7.

‘After that it was flashbacks all the time, feeling the blood on my feet, hearing the screams, I never got away from it.

‘I wasn’t able to do simple tasks.’

She began to move on from her trauma through a New York based young ambassadors programme called Strength to Strength, which brings together victims of terrorism.

The trip was funded by Omagh Support and Self Help Group, a charity set up after the Real IRA car bomb attack which killed 29 people in 1988.

Millie, who still passed seven GCSEs, is now studying media in New York.

And she has finally returned to the beach on a trip to Rhodes, Greece, with her mum Zoe.

She said: ‘It was a form of therapy for me, like taking the power back.

‘I wanted to experience it again knowing nothing would happen.

‘Holidays have always been the best time of the year, you’re excited all year, and Tunisia took that away from me.

‘This holiday felt like closing a chapter on it.

‘I didn’t want to let terrorism win because at one point I couldn’t even leave my house let alone think about going on a beach resort holiday.’

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