Dozens more killed in Yemen
- Published: 25/09/2011 at 06:35 AM
- Online news:
Clashes rocked the Yemeni capital on Saturday, leaving dozens of people dead a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from months of medical treatment in Riyadh carrying "the dove of peace."
An eerie calm finally prevailed in the late afternoon as the guns fell silent, an AFP correspondent said, after raging gunfire killed people and rattled nerves.
"We slept and woke up to the non-stop sound of gunfire," one Sanaa resident told AFP as firefights between rival military units raged in the city centre earlier in the day.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
