Friday, January 14, 2011

Tunisia: Two dead in clashes in Kairouan

Two civilians were killed by police gunfire in the city of Kairouan in central Tunisia, at the very moment when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali delivered a speech in which he ordered the late fire at the demonstrators, witnesses said. Sayed, a 23 year old electrician, was shot in the chest near the premises of the police during clashes that erupted after a peaceful demonstration at the union's appeal in this regional city center, said one of the witnesses.

Another forties Lamjed Dziri, employee of a tobacco factory, was also killed by police gunfire in the same circumstances, "said another witness. Both residents who spoke on condition of anonymity scenes of chaos in the town that has been looted for several hours. Three police stations, a municipality, a permanence of the presidential party in power, were burned and shops were looted.

Near Tunis, El Ghazala in the city, clashes took place Thursday night between police and protesters on the outskirts of a technology park guarded by the army, said a journalist from the.

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