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Teen killed in violence in still-unstable Tunisia

02 September 2011 19:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Tunisia’s state news agency says a teenage girl has died and four people have been injured during a melee between police and marauding youths â€” a sign of continuing instability in the nation after its pro-democracy revolution, APA reports quoting Associated Press.

TAP agency on Friday cites an unidentified Interior Ministry official as saying youths pillaged in the central town of Sbeitla overnight, setting fire to a police station and a train station, and ransacking a local hospital.

Police and soldiers moved in and fired warning shots â€” sparking a stampede in which the 17-year-old girl died and the others were injured.

The self-immolation and death of a street vendor in the nearby town of Sizi Bouzid last year sparked street protests that eventually drove longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power in January â€” the first in a wave of popular upheaval across the Arab world.