One killed in Yemen’s Aden amid anti-regime protests

Hundreds of Yemeni students demonstrated yesterday on the eighth straight day of anti-regime protests in Sanaa, while police shot dead a protester in the south and the opposition vowed to join protests.

In Sanaa, students gathered outside the university’s campus chanting slogans demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for 32 years, the correspondent said.

Around 100 of Mr Saleh’s supporters held a counter protest across the street from the campus while police set up a cordon to separate the two groups.

Pro- and anti-Saleh demonstrators have clashed violently over the past week in Sanaa with guns, batons and rocks with anti-regime protesters calling on the president to quit.On Saturday, the police did not intervene as fierce clashes left five students wounded, according to an AFP correspondent.

Yesterday, Yemeni police shot dead a protester in the southern regional capital Aden, medics and witnesses said, raising the death toll to 11 in the restive city since February 13, according to an AFP tally.A protester was also injured as police fired tear gas and bullets to disperse hundreds who took to the streets in Sheikh Osman neighbourhood in Aden calling on Mr Saleh to quit, the sources said.

At least 76 people, including seven soldiers, have been wounded in Aden since the protests begun, according to an AFP tally based on figures by medics and officials.