Large demo outside Tunisia interior ministry after murder

Last updated: February 6, 2013 1:35 pm

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People surround an ambulance transporting the body of Tunisian opposition leader and outspoken government critic Chokri Belaid, from from a clinic in Tunis to the public hospital for an autopsy, after he was shot dead with three bullets fired from close range, on February 6, 2013. Tunisian Premier Hamadi Jebali called the assassination "an act of terrorism", as the country grapples with growing political instability. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID

AFP – A large crowd of protesters gathered outside the interior ministry in central Tunis on Wednesday to denounce the murder of leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid, AFP journalists reported.

The demonstrators, numbering at least 1,000, shouted slogans against Ennahda, the ruling Islamist party, and sang the national anthem outside the ministry on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, epicentre of the 2011 uprising that ousted ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.