AFP - A protestor was killed Sunday by police firing on protesters demanding the departure of the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz, south of Sana'a, eyewitnesses said.
The young man was mortally wounded in the chest as he tore a portrait of the Head of State, the witnesses said.
Police opened fire and threw tear gas to disperse demonstrators who tried to march on the governor's seat in this city, told AFP several of them.
"At least 250 people were injured by gunfire or poisoned by tear-gassed by the police," said one witness.
Thousands of protesters camped since mid-February in the center of Taiz, Sana'a and demanding as in Aden (south) the fall of the regime of President Saleh, in power for 32 years.
