Tunisia: Belaid Assassination Sparks Clashes

Protesters have clashed with police in Tunisia as tension mounts following the assassination of a prominent opposition leader.

Petrol bombs were hurled by demonstrators in the central town of Gafsa, with officers there and in capital city Tunis reportedly using tear gas against those gathered.

The skirmishes in Gafsa, have come as protesters observed a symbolic funeral for Chokri Belaid, the leftist opposition leader killed on Wednesday.

Police fire tear gas at demonstrators in Tunis

The demonstration, in Tunisia's volatile central mining region was organised by the Popular Front, an alliance of leftist parties to which Mr Belaid belonged.

It was the first unrest reported in Tunisia on Thursday, after violence the day before left one policeman dead in Tunis and saw protesters ransack and set fire to offices of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party in a number of towns, including Gafsa.

The phosphate producing region has a history of unrest, with an uprising against the regime of ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2008 brutally suppressed - but has been held up by some as the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring.

Khalfaoui Belaid's family mourn his death

Meanwhile, around 300 people marched down Habib Bourguiba Avenue in central Tunis calling for regime change.

"The people want the fall of the regime," chanted the protesters as they headed towards the interior ministry.

Police used loudspeakers to urge the protesters to remain peaceful and not throw stones, but later deployed tear gas.

Shops had reopened in the centre of the city following Wednesday's clashes, but many of them kept their shutters down to save their windows from being smashed.

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