Two protesters killed, 60 injured in clashes in south Yemen: witnesses

At the least two anti-government protester had been killed and up to 60 other folks were wounded inside a raid by Yemeni security forces against a large number of protesters demanding ousting from the country's president in southern province of Taiz on Sunday, witnesses stated.

"The attack started when the protesters marched toward a police station in downtown the provincial capital city of Taiz to demand the release of their jailed colleagues," the witnesses said.

Doctor Hamoud Aqlan, the supervisor from the makeshift hospital told Xinhua that "two protesters had been killed and extra than 60 other people had been injured inside the security forces' attack on the protesters, eight of whom had been wounded with gunshots."

"The attack, in which security forces utilised reside bullets and tear gas, was nonetheless ongoing as police snipers were taking positions on the rooftops of buildings close to the epicenter with the sit-in, dubbed as Freedom Square," he stated.

Seeing that February, Yemen's significant cities have faced practically daily clashes between police forces and anti-government protesters demanding an finish towards the 33-year rule of defiant President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in which hundreds of men and women had been killed.

The impoverished Arab nation has already been functioning on a ceasefire to end a five-day tribe rebellion inside the capital Sanaa that killed at the least 127 individuals, as government forces have already been shelling militants from the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing just after they took over southern troubled province of Abyan on Saturday.

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