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Tunis:
Chokri Belaid, leader of the Tunisian opposition Democratic
Patriots party, has been shot dead as he was leaving his home.
He was transported to a hospital in
the suburbs of Tunis on Tuesday, where he died of his wounds, his
bother confirmed.
"My brother was assassinated. I am
desperate and depressed," Abdelmajid Belaid said.
He was shot in the neck and head on
his way to work. Tunisia is gripped by a political crisis as talks
on a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle to include a wider range of
parties in a coalition led by the Ennahda party have broken down.
"My brother was assassinated. I am
desperate and depressed," Belaid's brother Abdelmajid Belaid told
the AFP news agency.
It is not known who is responsible for the
attack on the politician.
On Saturday he accused "mercenaries"
hired by the Ennahda party of carrying out an attack on a
Democratic Patriots meeting.
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