daily clashes between police forces and anti- government protesters broke out in Yemen's major cities.

A minimum of five anti-government protesters were killed on Tuesday when Yemeni police forces confronted a march of thousands of protesters attempting to regain their sit-in square occupied by the police a day earlier in southern province of Taiz, witnesses stated.

"Government forces have controlled the four-month-old sit-in square of the protesters considering that early Monday and also the scattered protesters tried to gather and march to regain their square again, but police forces utilizing live bullets prevented them," among the witnesses named Abdul Qawi told Xinhua.

He stated the police forces also "managed Tuesday morning to disperse the protesters after shooting down at least five protesters half an hour ago."

On Monday, the death toll of the clashes between protesters and police forces in Taiz, some 200 km south of capital Sanaa, rose to at least 63 right after the forces controlled the sit-in location and burned the protesters' tents, local doctors told Xinhua, whilst up to 800 other people were injured, and dozens of whom with gunshot injuries had been still in essential conditions.

Since February, daily clashes between police forces and anti- government protesters broke out in Yemen's key cities.

The impoverished Arab country is attempting to cement a ceasefire to end a recent tribe rebellion in Sanaa that killed a minimum of 127 individuals, as government forces have been shelling militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing after the latter took over the southern troubled province of Abyan on Saturday.

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