TUNIS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with Tunisian police on Wednesday, as days of peaceful protests demanding a purge of former regime loyalists in an interim government descended into violence.
It was not clear how the clashes near government offices in the old city, or casbah, of Tunis began, but Reuters witnesses saw riot police use tear gas on hundreds of demonstrators, mainly teenagers and young men who threw stones.
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