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YEMEN: Police injure protesters to quell demonstrations

Published:Friday | May 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM
A Yemeni army soldier gestures to anti-government protesters attending a rally demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz on Wednesday. Yemeni security forces, including snipers, opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters marching to the Cabinet building on Wednesday, killing one and injuring at least 40, medical officials and protesters said. - ap

SANA'A, Yemen (AP):

Witnesses say Yemeni police trying to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters in two cities have injured 45 people, including some of them by gunfire.

In one of the cities, protesters took over an oil ministry building. Field doctor Sadeq al-Shujah in the southern city of Taiz says police fired live ammunition and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators there.

Taiz has been a hotbed of protests seeking the ouster of Yemen's long-time president. Activist Nouh al-Wafi says crowds seized control of the oil ministry building and hung a banner over the entrance on Thursday that said: "Closed until further notice by order of the youth revolution."

Activist Mohammed al-Amari says five other protesters were hurt in the central city of Bayda.

Taiz has been a hotbed of protests seeking the ouster of Yemen's long-time president.