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Tunisia lawmaker escapes assassination bid

A lawmaker with Tunisia's main political party said he escaped an assassination bid unharmed while driving to work in the coastal city of Sousse on Thursday.

"At around 9:45, on my way to work, a car on the road shot at me," Ridha Charfeddine, who survived without injury, told the radio station Jawhara FM.

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