Reuters:
Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:58pm GMT
TUNIS Oct 18 (Reuters) – Clashes between Islamists and secular opponents in the southern Tunisian town of Tataouine on Thursday left a secular politician dead, a local official and resident said.
The violence broke out during a march organised by a group of Islamists close to the Ennahda party, which leads Tunisia’s Islamist government. Protesters chanted slogans against the secular Nida Touns party, accusing it of being close to ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a resident said.
The Islamist group, the Association for the Protection of the Revolution, was passing the building of the local Agricultural Union which is headed by the local representative of Nida Touns, when the clashes began.
