2nd Tunisian detainee dies after hunger strike

Published November 17, 2012 11:56am ET



TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A second suspect in the attack on Tunisia’s U.S. embassy died Saturday after months on a hunger strike, his lawyer said.

Mohammed Bakhti, a prominent member of the ultraconservative Muslim Salafi movement, was admitted to intensive care days earlier following complications resulting from his two-monthlong hunger strike.

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