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Thursday, 22 September 2011
Anti-government protesters react as they carry the body of
a fellow protester during a collective funeral for protesters and
defected army soldiers who were killed in recent clashes with security
forces in Sana’a. (Photo by Reuters)
Two women were shot dead by snipers in the Yemeni capital's
Change Square Thursday while 10 people were killed and 30 others wounded
in shelling on the square as battles raged between Yemen's rival
military units, medics and witnesses said.
“Two women and two men, all civilians, were killed in the clashes while nine others were wounded,” a medic said.
The shelling has also destroyed a residential house and several tents for sit-in protesters in the southern part of the square in Sana'a, the epicentre of massive anti-regime protests.
Rival troops battled in the streets of the Yemeni capital for a fifth straight day Thursday, following the failure of a diplomatic bid to end the deadliest violence since mass anti-regime protests swept the country.
Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the night but later erupted into a full blown confrontation between troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and combatants of dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.
“Two women and two men, all civilians, were killed in the clashes while nine others were wounded,” a medic said.
The shelling has also destroyed a residential house and several tents for sit-in protesters in the southern part of the square in Sana'a, the epicentre of massive anti-regime protests.
Rival troops battled in the streets of the Yemeni capital for a fifth straight day Thursday, following the failure of a diplomatic bid to end the deadliest violence since mass anti-regime protests swept the country.
Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the night but later erupted into a full blown confrontation between troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and combatants of dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.
Residents said the fighting
occurred near the southern entrance of Change Square, the base of the
anti-government protesters who have been calling for Saleh’s resignation
since January.
In all, some 85 people, mostly unarmed civilians targeted by security forces or caught in the crossfire of the rival military units, have been killed in five days of clashes that first erupted on Sunday.
Meanwhile, a diplomatic official who requested anonymity told AFP that a Gulf mediator who left Sana’a after failing to broker a peace deal would head to New York to discuss Yemen’s deteriorating security situation with Gulf foreign ministers.
The Yemeni army also blocked entrances to Sana'a after the collapse of the negotiated cease-fire. Snipers and shelling killed at least five people in Sana’a on Wednesday, Reuters reported the medics as saying, raising the death toll in the last four days to 75.
Abdullatif al-Zayani, the Gulf Cooperation Council chief, left Yemen Wednesday empty-handed, saying the country’s political rivals are not ready for an agreement, the Yemen’s official news agency reported.
Both warring parties have thrown out accusations, each blaming the other for violating a truce agreed upon late Tuesday.
Saleh has remained mostly silent in the face of the escalating violence. He left Sana’a for the Saudi capital Riyadh in June to receive medical treatment after being wounded in a bomb attack on his presidential compound.
In all, some 85 people, mostly unarmed civilians targeted by security forces or caught in the crossfire of the rival military units, have been killed in five days of clashes that first erupted on Sunday.
Meanwhile, a diplomatic official who requested anonymity told AFP that a Gulf mediator who left Sana’a after failing to broker a peace deal would head to New York to discuss Yemen’s deteriorating security situation with Gulf foreign ministers.
The Yemeni army also blocked entrances to Sana'a after the collapse of the negotiated cease-fire. Snipers and shelling killed at least five people in Sana’a on Wednesday, Reuters reported the medics as saying, raising the death toll in the last four days to 75.
Abdullatif al-Zayani, the Gulf Cooperation Council chief, left Yemen Wednesday empty-handed, saying the country’s political rivals are not ready for an agreement, the Yemen’s official news agency reported.
Both warring parties have thrown out accusations, each blaming the other for violating a truce agreed upon late Tuesday.
Saleh has remained mostly silent in the face of the escalating violence. He left Sana’a for the Saudi capital Riyadh in June to receive medical treatment after being wounded in a bomb attack on his presidential compound.
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