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Tunisia opposition figures ‘shot by same gun

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Secular opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi was killed with the same gun that was used to kill his coalition party leader Chokri Belaid six months ago, Tunisia’s interior minister has said.

Lotfi Ben Jeddou told a news conference on Friday that it suggested the involvement of the same hardline Salafist group.

“The same 9mm automatic weapon that killed Belaid also killed Brahmi,” Jeddou said.

He named the main suspect as hardline Salafist Boubacar Hakim, already being sought on suspicion of smuggling weapons from Libya.

Ben Jeddou said that ballistic examination of the bullets fired on Thursday at Brahmi showed they came from the same gun used to kill leftist Belaid in February.

Two men on a moped shot Brahmi 14 times in front of his home as he was getting in his car.

Belaid was killed in a similar way.

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