Tunisia man dies after fire protest

A Tunisian cigarette vendor has died after setting himself alight in protest against unemployment. Source: AAP

A TUNISIAN cigarette vendor who set himself alight has died.

Adel Khadri, 27, died on Wednesday, said Imed Toiuibi, the director of the Ben Arous Burns Centre.

Officials said Khadri, from a poor family, had arrived in Tunis a few months ago to look for work.

Witnesses quoted him as shouting: "This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment," before setting himself on fire on the steps of the municipal theatre on Habib Bourguiba Avenue - epicentre of the uprising that toppled ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali more than two years ago.

The revolution was sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in a drastic protest against police harassment.

Economic and social difficulties were the key factors that brought down the regime. Two years later, poverty still plagues the North African country.

Parliament was to meet on Wednesday to vote on a new government to pull the country out of its long-running political crisis.

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