Violent clashes between security services and anti-government protestors are continuing in Yemen.
Anti-regime protestors in the volatile city of Taez were blasted with a hand grenade, leaving two dead and dozens hurt. Clashes also erupted in Sanaa, witnesses said.
Doctors in Aden said three demonstrators were shot dead as police dispersed protests in several areas of the southern port city.
The grenade attack came as hundreds of protestors took to central Taez after the weekly Muslim prayers to demand the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
A local official told AFP the grenade was lobbed at protestors from a speeding car with government number plates. Two people were in the car ‘but we will not identify their political affiliation,’ he said.
Two people were killed and 27 wounded, a medical official in the southern city told AFP.
In the capital Sanaa, the scene of a sixth straight day of demonstrations, at least four anti-regime protestors were wounded in an attack by Saleh partisans, witnesses said.
Several journalists were severely beaten by supporters of the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) who attacked the demonstration using batons and axes, an AFP correspondent reported.
Thousands of demonstrators, mostly students, had gathered following the weekly Muslim prayers in a main street of Sanaa. ‘People want to overthrow the regime,’ they chanted.
Mr Saleh's supporters numbered in the hundreds, aided by security agents in plainclothes.
Students have tried for the past week to hold a protest march toward the presidential palace but been intercepted each day by stone-throwing regime supporters armed with batons.
