Tunisia seeks to quell religious tension after unrest

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TUNIS — Tunisia's government on Wednesday sought to contain some of the worst unrest since last year's democratic revolution after rioting blamed on hardline Islamists led to 165 arrests and a nighttime curfew.

One man died and around 100 people were injured, including 65 policemen, as a result of the wave of unrest, which appears to have been triggered by an art exhibit that included works deemed offensive to Islam.

A 22-year-old protestor who sustained a bullet wound to the head during clashes between Salafist protestors and police Tuesday in the eastern city of Sousse died of his wounds in hospital, an official said.

On the last day of the exhibit entitled "The Spring of the Arts" in the northern Tunis neighbourhood of La Marsa Sunday, two individuals requested that "blasphemous" works be pulled down.

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