Four dead in fresh Tunisia unrest

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald/AFP

Several hundred demonstrators had been calling for the city's police chief, Khaled Ghazouani, to be sacked for abuse of power, the government news agency TAP reported.

The situation degenerated when Ghazouani slapped one of the protesters and the crowd tried to rush the police station and set it ablaze.

Police opened fire, killing two demonstrators, aged 19 and 36, and seriously wounding three others, said union sources and an interior ministry source.

Two of those injured later died of their wounds, union activists and a local resident told AFP later Saturday.

Read more: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/four-dead-in-fresh-tunisia-unrest-20110206-1ai6b.html

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The police chief was then arrested. There's also a reference to a police station in another town, which is this:

Tunisian authorities have arrested two policemen over suspected links to the death on Friday of two civilians after a police station they were locked in caught fire, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.

"Two policemen have been arrested at the police station on suspicion related to the incident that resulted in the death of two young men in a fire," the spokesman said, but did not elaborate.

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