SANAA (Reuters) – Four people died and hundreds were injured yesterday in some of the fiercest clashes between police and anti-government protesters since popular unrest began to batter impoverished and conflict-ridden Yemen in January.
One man was shot dead in the southern port city of Aden, two people were killed in the capital Sanaa and a boy of 12 died in the southern city of Mukalla, with fighting reported in at least two other cities as protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule turn ever more violent.
The United States said it was dismayed by the growing fatalities and called for calm, warning that Yemen could suffer the same fate as Libya, where anti-government protests have spiralled into armed conflict between government and rebels.
