British man who took sick selfie at scene of tourists' slaughter was LABOUR candidate!

• Labour parliamentary candidate Amran Hussain, 29, posed for a selfie where gunman slaughtered 38 tourists
• Army reservist and former NHS England officer defended his actions saying selfies are not 'banned'
• Dozens of people gathered at Marhaba beach in Tunisia to lay tributes 48 hours after crazed gunman opened fire 
• British death toll is expected to rise to 30 and 12 Brits have been identified so far after terror attack on Friday

by Jenny Awford

Labour parliamentary candidate Amran Hussain, 29, (centre) has sparked outrage by posing for a selfie at the exact spot where a crazed gunman massacred 38 holidaymakers

Mr Hussain told MailOnline: 'Selfies are not banned. I don’t see anything wrong with it. We were not capturing a happy moment, we were very distressed after what happened and we went down to the beach for 30 minutes to show solidarity.

‘We laid flowers and wrote a tribute and prayed to those who lost 

their lives in the horrific massacre.

‘We would have asked someone else to take a picture of us, but we were in the moment and we wanted to take a picture with the tribute and flowers we had put down.

'It has been taken completely out of context. It was all very upsetting and we just wanted to have a reminder of what happened. I just happened to be using a selfie stick as that is what I always use.' 

Hundreds have taken to Twitter to condemn the 'disgusting' picture, saying it sums up the 'selfie or selfish generation'. 

Alice Simmonds said: 'Absolutely shameless for a Labour candidate. He should know better.' 

Michael Wilton tweeted: 'This is a disgrace. The families haven't event started grieving.' 

Mr Hussain was on a week-long holiday with four friends, who are also pictured in the selfie, and they were all staying at the nearby Hotel Palmarina.

He said he did not witness the tragedy, but one of his friends heard shots from their hotel balcony.

The politician has now arrived back in the UK and wrote on Facebook, saying: 'We left Tunisia with a very heavy heart, but we will not allow terror to dictate our lives. Tunisia is a beautiful place with kind and peaceful people.

‘We went out onto our hotel beach today and paid our respects to those who lost their lives.

‘My thoughts shall remain for years with all those lives that were lost there, and also for the millions of struggling Tunisian families whose household income would be affected due to the negative effect on their tourism industry.

‘This is what the terrorists wanted and we must not give in I shall of course return back to Tunisia.’

The Labour candidate, who was brought up in the East-End of London in council housing, was defeated in the May election by a staggering majority and received just 5,290 votes compared to victorious Conservative candidate Ranil Jayawardena's 35,573 votes.

Mr Hussain is also a serving soldier in the British Army Reserves and sits on an independent monitoring board member for prisons and a school governor.

His actions on the memorial site have been slammed by hundreds on social media. 

Jerome Taylor ‏tweeted: 'This sums up the selfie generation. Tourist takes a pic next to site of the massacre in Sousse, Tunisia.' 

Davide Manfrin said: 'Selfie of the massacre on the beach in Tunisia. Idiots, don't they understand our fate is hanging by a thread.'

Rabeb Othmani tweeted: 'There is a fine line between freedom of expression & hurting others feelings: Stop posting the beach selfies #Tunisia'

Mark Olrog ‏said: 'A bad 21st century trait. People turning up and taking selfies of #Tunisia terror beach, apparently.'

Dozens of people gathered at the beach 48 hours after ISIS militant Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on helpless tourists.

Defiant, the group carried flags across the sand that was splattered with blood on Friday before placing flowers and tribute letters near the sunbeds where the attack happened. 

Others bowed their heads in silence as they placed books and signs at the scene, including a poignant one that simply read: 'Why they die?'

Is this right what he did? 

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