Three people were killed and nineteen wounded in violent clashes between police and protesters on Thursday evening February 17 at Aden, bringing to five the number of deaths in this city in southern Yemen in forty-eight hours, according hospital sources Friday. According to a hospital official Al-Joumhouriya, the bodies of three people killed by live ammunition were found Friday at the mortuary.
An earlier toll collected from hospitals in the city Thursday night was reported dead and ten wounded. The violence continued late into the night in different neighborhoods of the city between hundreds of protesters demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdallah Saleh, in power for thirty-two years, and the police, according to the correspondent of the site .
These events took place despite a deployment on Thursday, the army, after violent clashes on Wednesday between protesters and security forces, who had two dead and twenty injured. Repeating "the people want the fall of the regime," the hundreds of protesters angry youth in the district of Moualla tore portraits of President adorning the streets.
The police used tear gas and fired shots to disperse the protesters, who responded by throwing stones. A handful of protesters were armed, according to witnesses. In another neighborhood, Crater, protesters set fire to the building of the municipal government and a car, witnesses said. Demonstrators also set fire to the headquarters of the municipal district of Sheikh Othman.
Twenty demonstrators at least involved in the disturbances were arrested Thursday, according to a local official, while President Saleh ordered the formation of a commission of inquiry. Clashes with supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh held for the fifth consecutive day in Sanaa. "The people calling the fall of the regime," repeated a voice students Thursday, some retaliated by throwing stones at their attackers.
Security forces fired into the air to try to separate the two parties. Wednesday, at least ten students were injured in similar clashes. Hundreds of students tried to march towards the presidential palace on the Place Sabiine before being brutally persecuted by supporters of Mr Saleh, armed with clubs, knives and stones.
In Taiz (270 km south-west of Sanaa), hundreds of young demonstrators camped for the sixth consecutive day, on a crossroads in the city, renamed "Freedom Square", like that of Cairo which was the epicenter of the uprising against the Egyptian regime. "Ali liberates", "After Mubarak Ali", display banners installed by the protesters.
A Ebb (190 km south-west of Sanaa), hundreds of people have also demonstrated Thursday, calling for the regime fell, witnesses said. Recent events have raised less than those of participants in recent weeks, which had mobilized tens of thousands of people. But sporadic violence are becoming more numerous.
A Yemeni man has a gun on two, in a country with strong tribal structures and plagued by chronic rebellions as well as a growing activism of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The parliamentary opposition, which has agreed to resume dialogue with the regime, stayed away from the challenge.
It was more organized event since a march of tens of thousands of his supporters on Feb. 3, after the promises of reforms announced by the Head of State. Mr. Saleh had announced on February 2, the freezing of constitutional amendments which allowed him to seek re-election in 2013, and had said he would not seek to have his son succeed him. 
An earlier toll collected from hospitals in the city Thursday night was reported dead and ten wounded. The violence continued late into the night in different neighborhoods of the city between hundreds of protesters demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdallah Saleh, in power for thirty-two years, and the police, according to the correspondent of the site .
These events took place despite a deployment on Thursday, the army, after violent clashes on Wednesday between protesters and security forces, who had two dead and twenty injured. Repeating "the people want the fall of the regime," the hundreds of protesters angry youth in the district of Moualla tore portraits of President adorning the streets.
The police used tear gas and fired shots to disperse the protesters, who responded by throwing stones. A handful of protesters were armed, according to witnesses. In another neighborhood, Crater, protesters set fire to the building of the municipal government and a car, witnesses said. Demonstrators also set fire to the headquarters of the municipal district of Sheikh Othman.
Twenty demonstrators at least involved in the disturbances were arrested Thursday, according to a local official, while President Saleh ordered the formation of a commission of inquiry. Clashes with supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh held for the fifth consecutive day in Sanaa. "The people calling the fall of the regime," repeated a voice students Thursday, some retaliated by throwing stones at their attackers.
Security forces fired into the air to try to separate the two parties. Wednesday, at least ten students were injured in similar clashes. Hundreds of students tried to march towards the presidential palace on the Place Sabiine before being brutally persecuted by supporters of Mr Saleh, armed with clubs, knives and stones.
In Taiz (270 km south-west of Sanaa), hundreds of young demonstrators camped for the sixth consecutive day, on a crossroads in the city, renamed "Freedom Square", like that of Cairo which was the epicenter of the uprising against the Egyptian regime. "Ali liberates", "After Mubarak Ali", display banners installed by the protesters.
A Ebb (190 km south-west of Sanaa), hundreds of people have also demonstrated Thursday, calling for the regime fell, witnesses said. Recent events have raised less than those of participants in recent weeks, which had mobilized tens of thousands of people. But sporadic violence are becoming more numerous.
A Yemeni man has a gun on two, in a country with strong tribal structures and plagued by chronic rebellions as well as a growing activism of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The parliamentary opposition, which has agreed to resume dialogue with the regime, stayed away from the challenge.
It was more organized event since a march of tens of thousands of his supporters on Feb. 3, after the promises of reforms announced by the Head of State. Mr. Saleh had announced on February 2, the freezing of constitutional amendments which allowed him to seek re-election in 2013, and had said he would not seek to have his son succeed him.
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