Opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi assassinated in front of his house, reports say.
Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisia’s opposition politician, has been shot dead in Tunis in front of his house.
Lawyer Khaled Khichi said from the hospital that Brahmi was shot dead on Thursday morning.
Sources told Al Jazeera that it was not yet clear who had assassinated Brahmi, who was also a member of parliament.
Brahmi was from the People Movement party, part of the same coalition as Chokri Belaid who was assassinated in February.
On Wednesday, Noureddin B’Hiri, senior adviser to the prime minister, said that six people believed to have orchestrated Belaid’s killing had been identified.
“We have identified the sponsors and the authors of the assassination of Chokri Belaid,” B’Hiri said after a cabinet meeting.
B’Hiri said had that he details would be revealed “soon” by Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, without saying when.
Belaid was gunned down outside his home on February 6, in a brazen attack that shocked Tunisians and sparked a political crisis that brought down the government of Islamist premier Hamadi Jebali.
The interior ministry blamed the killing of Belaid, who was an outspoken critic of Jebali’s ruling Ennahda party, on a cell of “radical Islamists”.
In April, the government released the photos and names of five suspects and appealed for help in arresting them.
Since the revolution that toppled the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, “hardline Islamists” have been blamed for numerous acts of violence, notably an attack on the US embassy last September that left four assailants dead and the killing of Belaid.
Al Jazeera and agencies