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| Tunisia Brahmi killing: 'Same gun used' in Belaid murder | Tunisia Brahmi killing: 'Same gun used' in Belaid murder |
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| Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi was killed with the same gun as fellow leftist Chokri Belaid, the interior ministry has said. | |
| A Salafist is one of the main suspects involved in the killing, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said. | A Salafist is one of the main suspects involved in the killing, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said. |
| Gunmen on a motorbike shot Mr Brahmi, who led the Movement of the People party, in his car on Thursday morning. | |
| The governing Islamist Ennahda party has rejected accusations from relatives that it was complicit in the killing. | The governing Islamist Ennahda party has rejected accusations from relatives that it was complicit in the killing. |
| In February, the murder of prominent secular figure Chokri Belaid sparked mass protests and forced then-Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to resign. | |
| Mr Ben Jeddou addressed a news conference in the capital, Tunis, that was broadcast live on national television. | |
| "This information surprised us, the weapon used, a 9mm semi-automatic weapon, was the same weapon used to assassinate the martyr Chokri Belaid, not the same type, the same weapon, the same item," he said. | |
| "The first elements of the investigation show the implication of Boubaker Hakim, a Salafist extremist," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying. | |
| He also mentioned another man, Lutfi al-Zayn, and said they were both members of a 14-man group. | |
| Tunisia is experiencing a nationwide strike after the biggest trade union, UGTT, called the shutdown to denounce general "terrorism, violence and murders". | |
| On Thursday police used tear gas to disperse protesters in several towns, after Mr Brahmi was shot dead outside his home in Tunis. | |
| The BBC's Sihem Hassaini in Tunis says Mr Brahmi was not a secularist, he was a socialist and practising Muslim with a pan-Arab ideology and even though he was from the opposition he did not have a reputation of being very critical of the Islamists. | |
| He was not as prominent as Mr Belaid or as critical of Ennahda, which came to power after the overthrow of long-term ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. |