Sana’a: At least 76 demonstrators have been killed and more than 100 injured in clashes between Yemeni security forces and anti government protesters a day after Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia, Yemeni media reported.
Government forces that intensified violence against protesters, killing at least 173 people in the past week, again escalated their brutal crackdown after Saleh’s return, AFP reported.
Clashes between forces loyal to Saleh and protesters as well as dissident soldiers broke out in a number of neighborhoods across the capital of Sana’a on Saturday.
Saleh returned to Yemen on Friday after spending more than three months in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment following a rocket attack on the presidential palace in June 3.
Revolutionary forces say Saleh returned to Yemen to start a civil war in the country.
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have held regular anti-regime protests in major cities across the country since January to demand an end to Saleh’s three decade-long rule.
Protesters have also been demanding an end to poverty and rampant corruption as well as Saudi and the US inteference in the country’s affaires.
Saleh, however, has consistently defying to step down.
Hundreds of anti-regime protesters have been killed and many more injured since January, by riot police or Saleh’s supporters.
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