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Since today's afternoon (local time) police is attacking (incl. tear gas) anti-gov't protesters in the capital Tunis, after hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the prime minister's office to pressure the interim 'national unity' government to step down.

Protesters had begun gathering at gov't buildings since last night, in contravention of a curfew. When they surged through a police picket, tensions spiked and the police fired tear gas to clear the crowd.

Angry resisting protesters threw stones and smashed police vehicles during the clash.

Reuters also reported that several windows of the finance ministry building had been broken.

Before the skirmish, protesters said the situation outside the buildings was "very, very tense as they spent the night outside... They were told by security forces to leave the area, and tension mounted for some time", al-Jazeera reported in the morning from the site of the protest.

The protesters announced: "We'll continue our sit-in struggle for as long as it takes, until we topple the government!"

More tension is expected in the capital, as members of the national unity government cabinet, which includes members from both the RCD (ousted President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali's party) and the opposition, are expected to hold a meeting at the government buildings being surrounded by the protesters.

"Thousands, we've been told, will gather ... in this area to prevent the government of national unity, particularly the ministers... [from] starting their business," al-Jazeera correspondent reported before the clashes.

Since Y'day morning more than thousand activists, but also "ordinary" people (many are from Sidi Bouzid, a bleak city in central Tunisia where the so-called "Jasmine revolution" over poverty, corruption and political repression was sparked a five weeks ago) who had been driven to the capital in a "Freedom Caravan" surrounded the PM's building in central Tunis.

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