Police Kill 5, Wound 100 in Yemen Protests

Five protesters died and 105 others were injured Sunday in clashes with the police in Yemen, eyewitnesses and official sources said.

Thousands of demonstrators demanding the immediate end of the 33-year rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh stormed and burned the police station of Dar Saad district in Aden Sunday, in protests against “the use of force by police against Saturday’s overnight peaceful demonstrators,” eyewitnesses said.

Five protesters got wounded in Aden, according to police sources.

In the capital Sanaa, about 100 protesters were wounded Sunday by tear gas and shots of live ammunition in clashes with the riot police outside Sanaa University, Nadia Mohamed, a resident near the scene, told Xinhua.