Tunisia Police Fire Tear Gas at Anti-Government Demo

Tunisian police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse stone-throwing protesters in Sidi Bouzid demanding the resignation of the Islamist-led government, an Agence France Prese correspondent reported.

The demonstrators gathered outside the governor's office in the center-west city, cradle of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled the regime of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and home town of an anti-Islamist MP assassinated last week.

The protest is the latest in a wave of unrest that has gripped Tunisia since the murder on Thursday of Mohamed Brahmi, the second opposition figure gunned down in Tunisia since February.

Hundreds of demonstrators blocked employees from entering the building and called for the departure of the governor, who is close to the Islamist ruling party Ennahda.

Some then started hurling stones, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse them.