Yemeni police kill school student, protester

Yemeni police on Saturday shot dead a schoolboy in the south-east and another protester in the capital Sanaa, medics and witnesses said.

Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

Police fired live bullets to disperse a demonstration of hundreds of school students demonstrating in the south-eastern city of Mukalla, killing the 12-year-old boy, according to witnesses.

Students across the country took to the streets in response to a call for civil disobedience at schools on Saturday, after over a month of anti-regime protests.

In Sanaa police fired live rounds and tear gas, killing one person and wounding many more, when they attacked opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh camping in a main square in the capital.

The dawn assault forced back demonstrators who had breached the limits of a
concrete barrier put up by police at Sanaa's University Square, where protesters have been staging a sit-in for almost three weeks.

At least one demonstrator was killed and 300 others suffered injuries, including from live bullets and tear gas, said a medical committee set up by the protesters.