A young girl in Tunisia was murdered by her father for having a romantic relationship with a boy she loved, and her lifeless body was left by the sea.

 

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A young girl in Tunisia was murdered by her father for having a romantic relationship with a boy she loved, and her lifeless body was left by the sea. 2 Little Maryam is first kidnapped, raped, and then murdered and thrown into the sea.

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Daughter Recounts Brahmi Murder in Tunisia

A teenage daughter of Tunisian politician Mohammed Brahmi who was gunned down in broad daylight recounted Friday how he was slain by two men in black T-shirts on a scooter.

"At around midday, we heard gunfire and my father crying with pain. We rushed out -- my brother, mother and I -- to find his body riddled with bullets at the wheel of his car parked in front of the house," a red-eyed Balkis Brahmi told Agence France Presse.

"Despite the horror of it all, I spotted two men fleeing on a scooter, in black T-shirts and wearing helmets, one red and the other beige," said the 19-year-old woman, one of Brahmi's five children.

"Local police took a long time coming and a neighbor took my father to hospital, where he died. He lived as a man of principle and has left us a martyr," she said, fighting back tears.

Balkis Brahmi said her father was preparing to step down from parliament because "he did not want to vote on a constitution aimed at consecrating a military dictatorship".

The Islamist party Ennahda which heads Tunisia's ruling coalition "killed my father, and I hold its leader Rached Ghannouchi personally responsible," charged the young woman.

"My father was a true Arab nationalist," she said.

Her brother Adnan, 23, wearing the emblematic Palestinian keffiyeh chequered headscarf, said he had read the Muslim last rites to his father before he lost consciousness slumped in the car.

The state prosecutor's office, meanwhile, said an autopsy found that Brahmi, whose family and political colleagues said he was to be buried as a "martyr" on Saturday in a Tunis cemetery, had been mowed down by a hail of 14 bullets.

Human Rights Watch said Adnan Brahmi had told its researchers he heard a first and a second gunshot, then several other shots as if from a machinegun.

Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said on Friday that Brahmi and Chokri Belaid, another opposition figure who was murdered back in February, were gunned down with the same weapon.

"The gun used to kill Mohammed Brahmi is the same as that used to kill Chokri Belaid" six months earlier, he told a press briefing.

2 Little Maryam is first kidnapped, raped, and then murdered and thrown into the sea.Heartbreak in Tunisia: 3-year-old Mariam’s body found three days after being swept out to sea

For three days, the nation watched in hope and anguish as a massive search effort unfolded.

What began as a joyful summer outing ended in heartbreak for a Tunisian family after their three-year-old daughter, Mariam, was swept out to sea by strong winds. Her body was recovered three days later near Djerba.

The tragedy unfolded on Saturday at Kelibia beach, a popular coastal destination in northeast Tunisia. Mariam had been floating with her mother on a small inflatable ring, secured by a rope. But a sudden gust of wind snapped the tether, and the child drifted away — carried by the sea into deeper waters.Also Read:

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Her father, watching helplessly from the shore, dove in and swam over 1.5 kilometres in a desperate attempt to save her. Exhausted and gasping, he nearly drowned before being rescued by Mariam’s uncle. But by then, Mariam had disappeared beneath the waves.For three days, the nation watched in hope and anguish as a massive search effort unfolded. About 20 professional divers, drones, sonar equipment, and rescue boats were deployed by Tunisia’s Civil Protection and military teams, covering miles of coastline.

On Tuesday, Mariam’s body was discovered floating off the coast near Djerba — far from where she had vanished.

Images of the bright-eyed toddler have since gone viral on Tunisian social media, sparking an outpouring of grief and renewed debate over beach safety. The heartbreaking loss has amplified national concern over the lack of protocols at public beaches, including inadequate signage, the absence of trained lifeguards, and insufficient emergency response readiness.

Online, Mariam has become a symbol of sorrow — and a call to action. Many are urging authorities to implement urgent reforms to prevent such tragedies from happening again.