.- At least two people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes between security forces and demonstrators in several cities of Yemen, during another day of protests against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The major incident occurred in the capital, where earlier today the police tried to evict thousands of protesters for several weeks are camped outside the University of Sana'a.
According to Efe could check, the officers used smoke canisters and fired in the air to disperse the demonstrators, forcing them to raise the tents that were installed on a street near the University, after the neighbors protested this camping . There, one protester was shot dead in a clash between protesters and residents of this area, according to eyewitnesses told Efe.
Before the police action called by loudspeakers agents to vacate the place, but opposition activists disregarded the order. A security source told the news agency SABA Yemeni authorities have no intention to leave the square and that the action of the police respond to complaints from neighbors by camping in front of their shops and homes.
In the statement released by SABA, the security forces say they intervened after demonstrators clashed and neighbors, acknowledged that police had used water cannon and tear gas, but denied that toxic gases were used. On the other hand, a security source told Efe that an official of an insurance company was killed by a shot while looking out his office window overlooking the place where clashes in Sanaa.
Also, a dozen opposition supporters were injured in the head by stones and rubber bullets in the clashes, and had to be treated at hospitals, according to Efe could verify. The intervention of security forces encouraged hundreds of young people in Sana'a to march toward this place to protest police repression against opponents of the regime Saleh.
Clashes were also reported in other cities like Al Mukalla, capital of the province of Hadramut, in the southeast, where a student was seriously injured and is in a state of clinical death, according to opposition sources. Meanwhile, in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, two students were also injured during clashes with security forces.
Today's riots recorded two days after the Saleh announced that by the end of the year will promote changes in the Constitution to lay the foundations of parliamentary democracy and to reaffirm the separation of powers, a promise which the opposition is too late. Since last January 27, Yemen has witnessed sporadic protests against the regime of Saleh, but the demonstrations have gained intensity since mid-February. 
According to Efe could check, the officers used smoke canisters and fired in the air to disperse the demonstrators, forcing them to raise the tents that were installed on a street near the University, after the neighbors protested this camping . There, one protester was shot dead in a clash between protesters and residents of this area, according to eyewitnesses told Efe.
Before the police action called by loudspeakers agents to vacate the place, but opposition activists disregarded the order. A security source told the news agency SABA Yemeni authorities have no intention to leave the square and that the action of the police respond to complaints from neighbors by camping in front of their shops and homes.
In the statement released by SABA, the security forces say they intervened after demonstrators clashed and neighbors, acknowledged that police had used water cannon and tear gas, but denied that toxic gases were used. On the other hand, a security source told Efe that an official of an insurance company was killed by a shot while looking out his office window overlooking the place where clashes in Sanaa.
Also, a dozen opposition supporters were injured in the head by stones and rubber bullets in the clashes, and had to be treated at hospitals, according to Efe could verify. The intervention of security forces encouraged hundreds of young people in Sana'a to march toward this place to protest police repression against opponents of the regime Saleh.
Clashes were also reported in other cities like Al Mukalla, capital of the province of Hadramut, in the southeast, where a student was seriously injured and is in a state of clinical death, according to opposition sources. Meanwhile, in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, two students were also injured during clashes with security forces.
Today's riots recorded two days after the Saleh announced that by the end of the year will promote changes in the Constitution to lay the foundations of parliamentary democracy and to reaffirm the separation of powers, a promise which the opposition is too late. Since last January 27, Yemen has witnessed sporadic protests against the regime of Saleh, but the demonstrations have gained intensity since mid-February.
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