More than 40 people were injured Sunday, including one man severely burned in the fire at police headquarters in the town of El Kef (NW Tunisia) show, Monday, February 7, hospital sources. "A badly burned man was transferred to hospital by Ben Arous [specializing in the care of burn victims] in Tunis," said one hospital source attached to the regional hospital of Kef.
"Almost all the injured were admitted for mild cases of asphyxia and respiratory difficulties. There are also some cases of fracture. They have all been discharged from the hospital Sunday night," the source said. Most were injured in the fire at the local headquarters of the police by marauding gangs.
Monday morning the situation was "calm" in Kef, where the army is still deployed at strategic crossroads of the city and to major public buildings, said a union contacted by telephone from Tunis. The activity was not repeated, schools and shops were still closed at 10 o'clock. Every weekend, this city of about 50,000 inhabitants has been rocked by violent clashes and prey to looters.
The police building had already been partially burned Saturday by protesters demanding the departure of the local police chief accused of abuse of power. Sunday, the building was again targeted, this time by gangs of youths who then looted throughout the city, witnesses and union sources.
Saturday's clashes left two people dead, according to the Interior Ministry, which denied review of the four deaths given union sources. The two young men killed by the local chief of police who was arrested on Saturday night, were buried Sunday at Kef, witnesses said. The Tunisian interior minister, Fahrat Rajhi, said Sunday the suspension of activities of the Constitutional Democratic Rally, the party monopolized political life under the former regime of Zine El-Ali AbidineBen.
The former dictator was ousted Jan. 14, after four weeks of popular revolt, and fled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 
"Almost all the injured were admitted for mild cases of asphyxia and respiratory difficulties. There are also some cases of fracture. They have all been discharged from the hospital Sunday night," the source said. Most were injured in the fire at the local headquarters of the police by marauding gangs.
Monday morning the situation was "calm" in Kef, where the army is still deployed at strategic crossroads of the city and to major public buildings, said a union contacted by telephone from Tunis. The activity was not repeated, schools and shops were still closed at 10 o'clock. Every weekend, this city of about 50,000 inhabitants has been rocked by violent clashes and prey to looters.
The police building had already been partially burned Saturday by protesters demanding the departure of the local police chief accused of abuse of power. Sunday, the building was again targeted, this time by gangs of youths who then looted throughout the city, witnesses and union sources.
Saturday's clashes left two people dead, according to the Interior Ministry, which denied review of the four deaths given union sources. The two young men killed by the local chief of police who was arrested on Saturday night, were buried Sunday at Kef, witnesses said. The Tunisian interior minister, Fahrat Rajhi, said Sunday the suspension of activities of the Constitutional Democratic Rally, the party monopolized political life under the former regime of Zine El-Ali AbidineBen.
The former dictator was ousted Jan. 14, after four weeks of popular revolt, and fled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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