The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital which killed 20 foreign tourists, according to an audio recording distributed online.
The recording praised the two attackers, who were described as "knights of the Islamic State".
Tunisian troops have arrested two family members of one of the Islamist militant involved in the attack.
"We arrested the father and the sister of the terrorist Hatem Al-Khashnaoui in the their home in Sbiba City", a security source told Reuters.
He declined to give details about how they were involved inthe attack, but said an investigation is under way in Tunis.
Earlier, Britain's foreign office confirmed that a British woman was among at least 20 tourists killed in the attack on Tunisia's national museum.
Nine suspects have been arrested over the attack in Tunis, according to the presidency.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "The Tunisian people are rightly proud of their democratic transition.
"Cowardly attacks, such as the one we saw yesterday, must not be allowed to undermine what they have achieved."
The tourist, named as Sally Adey, was on an excursion to the National Bardo Museum with her husband at the time. He survived the attack, officials said.
Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed the museum in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that had largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil.
Tunisia's health minister said 13 of those killed have been identified and the dead included three Japanese nationals, two Spaniards, a Colombian, an Australian, a British woman, a Belgian, two French, a Pole and an Italian.
A Tunisian bus driver and a policeman were also reported dead.
Emergency services said two Spanish tourists were found alive after spending the night hiding inside the museum.
A museum employee hid the two Spaniards in an office during the four-hour attack by the gunmen.
All three were taken to hospital today for medical checks after their ordeal, a civil protection official said.
Tunisia's army is now to be deployed to protect major cities to increase security.
"After a meeting with the armed forces, the president has decided large cities will be secured by the army," the president's office said in a statement.
UNSC condemns 'heinous act'
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned what he called the "deplorable" attack.
The UN Security Council also condemned "this heinous act".
The secretary general "expresses his solidarity with the Tunisian people and the Tunisian authorities," his spokesman said.
No group has claimed the attack by gunmen in military uniforms who opened fire at visitors as they got off a bus and then chased them inside the National Bardo Museum.
Security forces entered around two hours later, killed two militants and freed a number of hostages, a government spokesman said.
"The members of the Security Council stressed that no terrorist attack can reverse the path of Tunisia towards democracy and all efforts directed towards economic recovery and development," the UN top body said in a statement.
The attack on such a high-profile target is a blow for the small north African country that relies heavily on European tourism and has mostly avoided major militant violence since its 2011 uprising to oust Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
Tunisia's culture minister said the museum will reopen early next week.
Two cruise companies suspend Tunis stopovers
Two Italian cruise companies whose passengers were among the victims of the attack have suspended stopovers in the city.
In a blow for Tunisia's tourist industry, MSC Cruises and Costa Crociere said none of their boats would berth in Tunis until further notice.
Nine passengers on the MSC ship were among the foreign tourists confirmed to have died.
A further 12 passengers were injured and six had not returned to the MSC Splendida when it left Tunis this morning, bound for Barcelona.
Three passengers on the Costa Fascinosa died, the company's CEO Michael Thamm said in a statement. Eight others were injured and two were unaccounted for. The nationalities of the deceased were not released.
The ship set off from Tunis in the early hours for the Spanish island of Mallorca.
Costa said the suspension would affect three of its ships which had been due to berth in Tunis in the coming months - the Costa Fortuna, Costa Favolosa and the Costa neoRiviera.
MSC also had three boats scheduled to dock in Tunis in the near future.
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