Seven more killed in Yemen unrest
At least seven protesters were killed and dozens wounded yesterday as gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in the Yemeni capital, medics and the opposition said.
It was the third time in four days that demonstrators had attempted to march from their base in Sanaa's Change Square on loyalist-held areas of the capital to be met by deadly gunfire.
Leading activist Sakhr al-Wajih told a press conference that six protesters were killed and 59 wounded.
A medic said a seventh slain protester was received at the state-run Republican hospital, along with four wounded, one in a serious condition.
In a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, Yemen's new Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman called on the world body to take "immediate and decisive action to stop the massacres and hold the perpetrators accountable."
According to a letter from Yemen's youth movement sent to the United Nations earlier this month, at least 861 people have been killed and 25,000 wounded since protests first erupted in January against Saleh's 33-year rule.
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