Tunisian police have fired tear gas to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, the hometown of slain secular opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi.
Tensions have run high in Tunisia since Mr Brahmi's assassination, and large protests have been met with force by the authorities.
In a bid to stave off unrest in the capital Tunis and in the country's south, secular coalition partners of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party are in talks to reach a new power-sharing deal.
A spokesman for the Constituent Assembly, Tunisia's transitional parliament tasked with drafting a new constitution, said he expected a deal within the coming hours.
"The trend now is to move towards expanding the base of power," Mufdi al Masady told a local radio station.
The effort to reach a new deal by secular coalition partners of the ruling Ennahda party could help defuse increasingly hardline rhetoric on both sides.
Mourners attend the funeral of slain opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi But so far, protests in the country have continued.
In Sidi Bouzid, locals say angry protesters threw rocks at police late on Saturday.
"Hundreds of protesters lit tyres on fire to block roads and they threw rocks at the police," resident Mahdi al Horshani told the Reuters news agency.
"There is a lot of anger and frustration at the situation."
Tensions have grown in Tunisia since Mr Brahmi's killing on Thursday, which came just months after another secular opposition figure was gunned down.
Secular opposition groups immediately began organising protests and demanded the dissolution of the Islamist-led government.
Their efforts have been fuelled by the recent protests and unrest in Egypt, which toppled that country's democratically elected but unpopular Islamist leader a year after he came to power.
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