Sunday, February 6, 2011

Three dead protesters-police clashes in the city of Le Kef

TUNIS - Back to the tension high in Tunisia. Police fired on a crowd of demonstrators in the town of Le Kef, in the north-west of Tunisia, killing at least three people, local sources, while they were ongoing clashes between demonstrators and police outside the headquarters of the Prefecture. According to state television, the budget instead of a dead and seventeen wounded, one of them in critical condition.

Still according to the TV, after the incidents would be arrested by order of the Minister of the Interior, Chief Commissioner of Police of Le Kef, Khaled Ghazouani. Just ask for his replacement, accusing him of "abuse of power in the exercise of his duties", several hundred people had given rise to the protest and the police, under orders from Ghazouani would have opened fire to disperse them.

Some of the most seriously injured were admitted to hospitals in Tunis. Yesterday, two young men died in a fire security cells at the police station of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, the city from which, by the sacrifice of the young Mohamed Bouaziz last Dec. 17, is playing the popular uprising that led to Ben Ali's regime fell.

The deaths of two youths, who were arrested during the protests, triggered a series of sometimes violent demonstrations since last night. Hundreds of people, radunatesi before the police station, set fire to three cars (one of the police, two civilians). The Interior Minister has ordered an investigation to ascertain the cause of the fire, not excluding the possibility of a malicious act by supporters of President Ben Ali.

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