Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Yemeni army is said to have opened fire on protesters

Protests against the president, witnesses said four people were killed. The fatal shots were killed in the north, several people were injured. Eye witnesses tell of dramatic scenes in the north of Yemen: Many people demonstrated against President Ali Abdullah Salih and corruption in the country.

Soldiers tried to disperse the angry crowd - and the shot at them, witnesses said. Shiite insurgents said that protesters had been bombed by the military. Two people were reportedly killed. The news channel al-Arabiya reported another nine injured. In the capital Sanaa also gathered in the morning, hundreds of opponents of the president.


Other sources spoke of tens of thousands of demonstrators near the University of Sanaa. According to the news site "News Yemen" they shouted, "Get out, Get out!" The event on the day of the Friday prayer was held under heavy military presence. In the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, tens of thousands of opposition supporters at the funeral of three killed by the police, demonstrators, whose bodies were recently handed over to their families.

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