At least five people were killed in Yemen as protests against the 33-year reign of President Abdullah Ali Saleh continue in the country for the 10th consecutive day. Five others were wounded on Saturday as Saleh blamed the anti-government protests on “a foreign plot.”According to reports from the ground, protesters began marching from the University of Sanaa to the country’s justice ministry when police and plainclothes thugs intervened with clubs and knives.
The protesters were chanting “The people want the fall of the regime.”
Eye witnesses told Bikya Masr that police then fired into the air in an effort to disperse the demonstrators.
Medical sources said that one man was shot in the neck and killed.
The protests have been demanding Saleh’s departure, in an movement inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt that saw their presidents flee after massive anti-government demonstrations were successful.
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