TUNISIA has marked a day of mourning after gunmen killed a leading opposition figure, sparking fresh political turmoil, protests and a general strike which took Tunis to near standstill.
National airline Tunisair and European airlines cancelled flights on Friday, with more street protests expected amid allegations of government connivance in Thursday's killing.
MP Mohamed Brahmi, 58, of the leftist and nationalist Popular Movement, was assassinated outside his home in Ariana, near Tunis, witnesses said.
The state prosecutor's office said an autopsy found that Brahmi, whose family and political colleagues said would be buried as a "martyr" on Saturday in a Tunis cemetery, had been mowed down by a hail of 14 bullets.
Balkis Brahmi, 19, one of his five children, said her father was killed by two men in black on a motorbike.
"At around midday, we heard gunfire and my father crying with pain. We rushed out - my brother, mother and I - to find his body riddled with bullets at the wheel of his car parked in front of the house," she told AFP.
As news of the killing spread, thousands of angry protesters took to the streets on Thursday in central Tunis and in Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of the Arab Spring and Brahmi's hometown.
Police in Tunis fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who tried to set up a tent for a sit-in calling for the fall of the regime after the second such killing of a critic of the country's Islamist leadership.
The assassination was the work of a member of the radical Sunni Muslim Salafist movement, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said on Friday.
"The first elements of the investigation show the implication of Boubaker Hakim, a Salafist extremist," he told a press briefing.
He also said Brahmi was killed with the same weapon used to murder another opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, in February.
On Wednesday, a minister and senior adviser to the premier said six people believed to have orchestrated Belaid's killing have been identified. Noureddin B'Hiri said the details would "soon" be revealed.
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