According to the news gathered by CEOAFRICA.com from Tunis, a state funeral has been held for Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi assassinated on Thursday by gunmen, as one protester died during the weekend following widespread of unrest that follows his death.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Tunis as the coffin wrapped in the national flag passed by under military escorts. He was buried in the same cemetery as another leading opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, who was killed earlier this year.

It was furthered gathered that after the funeral ceremony, anti- and pro-government demonstrators gathered outside parliament buildings in central Tunis, but Police dispersed them with tear gas.

Supporters of Mr Brahmi have turned their grief and anger on governing Islamist party Ennahda, with relatives accusing it of complicity in the killing.

Meanwhile, there was a report that hour before the funeral, a bomb exploded on a car outside a police station in the capital’s La Goulette district with a policeman injured.

In Gafsa, one demonstrator was killed in clashes with police. The circumstances of his death remain unclear.

Earlier, demonstrators attacked Ennahda's headquarters in Sidi Bouzid, Mr Brahmi's hometown and the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutions which have swept the Middle East.

Furthermore, the political inferno in the country has taken a new twist as six opposition parties have now withdrawn from the national assembly and called for the Islamist-led government to be replaced by a national unity administration.

Sources described Mr Brahmi as a socialist and practising Muslim with a pan-Arab ideology.