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TUNIS, Tunisia – At least 219 people were killed and
510 injured in the unrest that led to the fall of Tunisia's dictatorial
regime, a United Nations mission said Tuesday, as sporadic violence continued to flare around the country.

A gang set fire overnight to a small synagogue, a
Jewish leader said, in what appeared to be the first attack on a Jewish
institution since the start of the unrest that forced the Muslim North
African nation's autocratic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia.

Bakr N'diaye, the head of the mission sent by the
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the unrest, said
his team counted 147 deaths beside the 72 deaths in prison fires and
violence linked to the unrest.

The country's caretaker government has said about 78
people lost their lives in the unrest fueled by widespread corruption
and repression, but that figure has been contested by the opposition.

Tunisia's rebellion has spread to Egypt, where
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