TUNIS: Tunisian government opposition member Muhammad al-Brahimi has been assassinated in Tunis on Thursday morning, officials said.
Brahimi, a member of the nationalist and secular People’s Movement party, was shot 11 times at his home in the al-Ghazala neighborhood in Tunis, according to preliminary reports. His family witnessed the assassination.
It is the second assassination of an opposition politician following the murder of leftist politician Chokri Belaid in February.
