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Sana'a: At least 19
people were killed and hundreds of others injured when Yemeni
security forces opened fire to disperse the protesters in Yemen's
capital city and provinces Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
In Sana'a, security forces stormed a camping square of tens of
thousands of anti-government protesters Wednesday evening. They
left at least 14 protesters as killed, 236 others wounded by
gunshots, another 241 injured by batons and stones as well as 735
suffered from suffocation due to tear gas, Xinhua quoted a doctor
at the field hospital as saying.
Earlier in the day, a protester was killed in Sana'a when he
marched to the presidential palace along with other demonstrators.
Clashes between security forces and tens of thousands of anti-
government protesters in Yemen's western Red Sea province of Al-
Hodayda Wednesday evening killed at least one protester, injuring
dozens others, said doctors and witnesses.
In the southern province of Taiz, 200 km south of Sana'a, police
Wednesday morning killed at least three protesters and injured
dozens others after the latter set a police station on fire and
seized several government buildings, said witnesses.
Also Wednesday, a march by tens of thousands of protesters in the
southern province of Ibb, 150 km south of Sana'a, took control of
the provincial building after they clashed with police forces,
witnesses said.
Tens of protesters and policemen were injured demanding the
immediate ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh , the witnesses
added.
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