Tunisian police on Wednesday night clashed with anti-government protesters in at least five towns in a fourth night of demonstrations against austerity measures.
Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds in Tunis and Tebourba, a small town outside the capital where one protestor had been killed in Monday.
A Jewish school on a Tunisian island that is home to an ancient Jewish community was attacked late on Tuesday as violent anti-government protests raged in the North African country.
Petrol bombs thrown at the school on the tourist resort island of Djerba caused some damage but no injuries, a spokesman of the local Jewish community said.
Mainly Muslim Tunisia has a Jewish minority of fewer than 1,800 people. Jews have lived in Tunisia for over 2,000 years.
Djerba is home to Africa’s oldest synagogue, El Ghriba, which was hit by al Qaeda-linked militants in 2002 in a truck bomb attack that killed 21 people including Western tourists.
