New Deaths, Injuries in Aden During Protests
Update: Four dead, and security stormed a hospital to arrest the injured.
Original Post: Shooting into the crowds again. Over one hundred arrests. And we didn’t even hear yet what former president al Beidh has to say after 15 years of silence.
M&CTwo people killed as police clash with protesters in southern Yemen by DPA
Sana’a, Yemen – Two people were killed and around 20 others injured in clashes between police and anti-government protesters in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Thursday, medical sources said.
The sources in two Aden hospitals told the German Press Agency dpa that two people died in hospital of bullet injuries, and 19 others were still being treated.
The clashes erupted after anti-riot police tried to disperse demonstrations in the Sheikh Othman neighbourhood called by southern opposition groups to mark the 19th anniversary of the reunification between north and south Yemen.
Witnesses said police opened fire in the air and used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
The confrontations were the latest in a series of violent protests that engulfed cities in three southern provinces in the past few weeks, leaving dozens of wounded protesters and security force members.
Authorities on Wednesday said they would prevent any unauthorized protests during the country’s celebrations of the unity day.
Southern separatist groups, that want the south to secede from the north, have been organizing protests since April 28 against what they claim as the central government’s discriminatory policies against southerners.
