Sanaa, November 25: Five people, including two soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in clashes between security forces and demonstrators in Ataq in southern Yemen, a local official said.
“Five people, among them two soldiers, were killed and 10 people were wounded in clashes at the entrance of the town of Ataq,” the capital of Shabwa province, 500 kilometers southeast of Sanaa, the official said.
The clashes began when security forces and soldiers tried to stop thousands of protesters calling for southern secession from entering the city, the official said.
A demonstration was underway inside the city to commemorate the British withdrawal from Aden, which marked the independence of the former South Yemen, on November 30, 1967.
—-Agencies