Tunisia police disperse protesters at US embassy

Tunisian police firing live rounds and tear gas on Friday drove angry protesters from the US embassy in Tunis, some of whom had stormed the compound, with clashes there killing at least two people, an AFP journalist reported. By 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) calm had returned at the sprawling embassy compound, in a suburb of the capital, as security forces patrolled the area, some of them driving armoured vehicles through the surrounding streets that were strewn with debris. The health ministry, cited by the official TAP news agency, said two people were killed during the clashes and another 29 wounded, revising an earlier toll of three dead and 28 wounded. The ministry gave no details of those killed, saying only that "police and protesters were among the injured." Two of them were in a critical condition, according to the same source, which did not exclude the possibility of the toll rising, due to the "unprecedented violence" of the clashes.