Explodes the bread riots "killed fifty demonstrators"

TUNIS - Tunisia is on fire. While continuing clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Algeria, the bread riots in the neighboring country explodes. At least eight people were killed in riots in Tala and Kasserine, in central-eastern region of the country. In the evening, an official report released by the government speaks of 14 dead in 24 hours.

But according to Radio Kalima, the dead were already fifty. And the protest is extended throughout the country. In this dramatic situation, an opposition leader, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, has called "urgent" to President Zine Abidine Ben Ali to give "immediately" to the police orders not to shoot more "to save the lives of citizens innocent people and respect their right to demonstrate.

" Must "stop the fire," said the historic leader of the Democratic Progressive Party claimed that the second of his party activists in both cities the police "opened fire on funeral processions." AUDIOVIDEO Reports and testimonies from Tunisia yesterday, after the assault at a bank and some public buildings, for the first time in Tala had been deployed in the military.

Belgacem Sayhi, a union representative for the school division, told Agence France Presse that in the city center, police opened fire on demonstrators. The victims are Jomni Marwan, 20, Boulaaba Ahmed, 30, Mohamed Omri, 17, and Boulaaba Nouri, 30, as confirmed by two sources who requested anonymity.

Among the injured, six were in critical condition and were transferred to a hospital in Kasserine, the capital of the region where, in other clashes, was killed a child of 12 years. This news, however, was not confirmed by local authorities. In Tunisia the revolt against high prices and unemployment began Dec.

17 after a graduate was walking on fire in Sidi Bouzid to protest against the police who had seized the goods. The protest against the rising cost of living continues in Algeria, where in recent days four people were killed and about 800 people, including 300 officers, were injured. The latest victim is a young man hit by a shot last night in the region of Tiaret, 340 kilometers west of Algiers, with his father while trying to save their bar from an attack by protesters.

The circumstances of his death still remain unclear: according to witnesses and a senator who requested anonymity, the bullet that killed the young man came from his father's gun. The night was quiet in Algiers, although some accidents, the newspaper El Watan, took place yesterday afternoon and evening in the eastern suburbs, in Bordj El Kiffan and Ain Taya, where protesters have blocked main streets with barricades.

Clashes took place in Kabylie, Tizi Ouzou in the capital, near Bejaia, Boumerdes and Bouira, but also to Tebessa and Annaba (east). For the first time last night, young people also took to the streets and Maghnia Bechar, along the border with Morocco. Meanwhile, the government announced new or exceptional measures taken by the government to reduce prices of oil and sugar.

Among the main measures adopted by the Ministerial Council is "a suspension and exemption of customs duties, taxes and taxes" on oil and sugar that will allow a total of lowering prices by 41% the prices, reported a statement from the Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, inviting producers and distributors to implement "urgently the effects of pricing rules." The suspension of such taxes will be in force until Aug.

31, states the note, and at the same time, the government will define all the operators a way to "permanently stabilize the prices of sugar and oil."

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