{"id":6517,"date":"2013-03-13T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tunisian-man-who-set-himself-on-fire-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T05:55:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:55:33","slug":"tunisian-man-who-set-himself-on-fire-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tunisian-man-who-set-himself-on-fire-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Man Who Set Himself on Fire Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2186 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dert.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{A Tunisian cigarette vendor who set himself alight in a street of the capital Tunis has died from the severe burns he suffered, a medical official said on Wednesday.}}<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven-year-old Adel Khadri, who torched himself on Tuesday, &#8220;died today at 5:30 am (0430 GMT) as a result of severe burns,&#8221; Imed Toiuibi, the director of the Ben Arous Burns Centre said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Khadri, from a very poor family in the northwestern locality of Jendoubam, had arrived in the capital a few months ago to look for work.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses quoted him as shouting: &#8220;This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment,&#8221; before setting himself on fire on the steps of the municipal theatre on Habib Bourguiba Avenue &#8212; epicentre of the uprising that toppled ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali more than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution was sparked by the self-immolation in the town of Sidi Bouzid of Mohamed Bouazizi December 17, 2010, in a drastic act of protest against police harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Economic and social difficulties were the key factors that brought down Ben Ali&#8217;s regime and two years since he fled to Saudi Arabia, unemployment and poverty still plague the North African country.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament was to meet on Wednesday to vote on a new government to pull the country out of its long-running political crisis, after premier-designate Ali Larayedh assured MPs on Tuesday his new team was up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A Tunisian cigarette vendor who set himself alight in a street of the capital Tunis has died from the severe burns he suffered, a medical official said on Wednesday.}} Twenty-seven-year-old Adel Khadri, who torched himself on Tuesday, &#8220;died today at 5:30 am (0430 GMT) as a result of severe burns,&#8221; Imed Toiuibi, the director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}