Anti-government protests erupted in Tunisia Thursday following the assassination of opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi, dpa reported.
Hundreds of people demanding the "fall of the regime" and shouting slogans hostile to the ruling Islamist party Ennahda gathered outside the Mahmoud Matri hospital in northern Tunis, where Brahmi was taken after being shot outside his home, local media reported.
Several of the demonstrators waved Tunisian flags, photographs posted on Twitter showed.
Hundreds more demonstrated outside the Interior Ministry on Habib Bourguiba avenue in central Tunis and in the central governorate of Sidi Bouzid, where Brahmi was born, according to local radio reports.