Police and mourners have clashed at the mass funeral of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.
Police and mourners have clashed at the mass funeral of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.
protests: Mourners carry the coffin of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid during his funeral procession in Tunis as a protester is beaten by police and another flees from tear gas after a car is set ablaze. Main picture: Reuters
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Tarek Amara and Alistair Lyon TUNIS
At least 50,000 people turned out yesterday to honour Mr Belaid in his home district of Jebel al Jaloud in the capital, chanting anti-Islamist and anti-government slogans. It was Tunisia's biggest funeral since the death of Habib Bourguiba, independence leader and the country's first president, in 2000.
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