In Yemen president Ali Abdallah Saleh declared a state of emergency. The National Security Council had precipitated this decision for the whole country, Saleh in Sanaa said on Friday in front of journalists.
Previously, in an attack on government opponents after new details of rescue workers at least 41 people were killed. According to eyewitnesses Salih's followers shot from the roofs of surrounding houses to the tens of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered on a plaza in front of the university in the capital Sanaa.
The security forces used live ammunition and tear gas as the demonstrators tried to dismantle barriers that blocked access to an adjacent street. The channel Al Jazeera reported, citing doctors who are most gunshot victims on the head, neck and chest. According to this information, for many of the fatal injuries.
In a mass demonstration after Friday prayers, people had called for the end of the reign of President Salih, who is in power since 1978. In the square outside the university in the center of Sanaa camp for almost four weeks, thousands of opposition supporters. During the night of Thursday were wounded five people in the square by masked men.
According to activists of the opposition, it was in with guns, daggers and clubs armed attackers were followers Salih. In the last few weeks in Sana'a and other cities of the country again and again to bloody clashes between opposition supporters and the police and supporters Salih.
Previously, in an attack on government opponents after new details of rescue workers at least 41 people were killed. According to eyewitnesses Salih's followers shot from the roofs of surrounding houses to the tens of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered on a plaza in front of the university in the capital Sanaa.
The security forces used live ammunition and tear gas as the demonstrators tried to dismantle barriers that blocked access to an adjacent street. The channel Al Jazeera reported, citing doctors who are most gunshot victims on the head, neck and chest. According to this information, for many of the fatal injuries.
In a mass demonstration after Friday prayers, people had called for the end of the reign of President Salih, who is in power since 1978. In the square outside the university in the center of Sanaa camp for almost four weeks, thousands of opposition supporters. During the night of Thursday were wounded five people in the square by masked men.
According to activists of the opposition, it was in with guns, daggers and clubs armed attackers were followers Salih. In the last few weeks in Sana'a and other cities of the country again and again to bloody clashes between opposition supporters and the police and supporters Salih.
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