Three Britons have been released from hospital following the Paris attacks and have returned to the UK, David Cameron has said.
The prime minister told MPs that 15 other Britons were being supported for trauma by the Foreign Office and Red Cross following the atrocities on Friday night.
He told MPs: “We will make sure we provide all the support to those injured and traumatised by the events that have happened.”
Nick Alexander, a 36-year-old from Colchester, was the only Briton who died in last week’s marauding gun and bomb attacks on the French capital, which claimed 129 lives and seriously injured scores more people.
The British government had warned in the immediate aftermath of the attack that there may be a “handful of British fatalities”. However, the Foreign Office confirmed on Wednesday that there was only one British death.
Alexander’s family issued a statement on Saturday confirming that the “generous, funny and fiercely loyal” music fan had been killed at the Bataclan, where he was selling merchandise for US rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
“It is with huge sorrow that we can confirm that our beloved Nick lost his life at the Bataclan last night,” the statement said. “Nick was not just our brother, son and uncle, he was everyone’s best friend – generous, funny and fiercely loyal.
“Nick died doing the job he loved and we take great comfort in knowing how much he was cherished by his friends around the world. Thank you for your thoughts and respect for our family at this difficult time. Peace and light.”
Alexander had spent the evening with an ex-girlfriend, Helen Wilson, an American who runs a catering company in Paris called Rock en Bol. He had called her when the band arrived in Paris and they had spent the evening talking about old times. They heard noises outside the concert hall, then saw people running inside, Wilson told the Daily Telegraph.
“Maybe five, six guys came in with machine guns and shotguns and just started shooting people. It was mayhem,” she said. The couple lay down to avoid the bullets. “Nick was in front of me when we were lying on the ground and somebody moved and they just turned round and started shooting us.
“His back was to me and I couldn’t see what happened and I tried to keep him talking and then I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and they [the gunmen] were just sort of in the shadows and they would shoot if anyone said anything.
“Then he couldn’t breathe any more and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him. He was the love of my life.”
