Security forces and police Government supporters opened fire from rooftops and the street to tens of thousands of demonstrators, according to witnesses, such as the distribution for a second day by the city of Taiz disputes. At least 10 people were killed; the official news agency Saba said a doctor at a local hospital said 12 people died and 50 were wounded in the shots.
In the Western port city of Al Hudaydah, two protesters were Government Monday night shootings of police officers killed supporters during a March on the Presidential Palace. Saba confirmed the death.
The violence of Taiz, where tens of thousands have staged a sit-in for more than six weeks, was the deadliest there seen and came under a sign that the United States had concluded that President Saleh must give way. Protesters have demanded that he resign immediately.
Yemen coalition of opposition parties condemned the violence and prayed foreign powers "to stop intervention President Saleh and his entourage of more Yemeni bloodshed."
Witnesses said the clashes in Taiz that began on Monday when demonstrators tried, two miles from the neighborhood where demonstrators which has been staging sit-in have marching a Presidential Palace.
Security forces confronted the masses and tries to prevent them, the Palace with tear gas before the burning fired bullets in the air on and then on the protesters as others from rooftops around the protesters route, said witnesses.
The associated press, citing witnesses reached by telephone, said that some protesters was been contacted by the fleeing masses with feet.
"There were people dressed in soldier uniforms and balls from rooftops, shoot live wearing civilian clothes" said Abdul Habib al-Qadasy, 47, was engineer of the protest in Taiz.
The violence was a crackdown two weeks ago in the capital Sana'a, when sniper related raised with the Government buildings in an effort to make sure that protesters marching. More than 50 people were killed.
While acknowledging the outbreak who gave force of Taiz, the Government how the partnership began, to the say another account the police only to a clash between demonstrators and Government had intervened supporters smash.
"she went to a very busy street in Taiz and planned to sit,", said a senior official in Sana of the protesters. "they took some 300 people." The shop owner and the residents on this road, said; "Please don't." If you sit here, you go to us violate. "And so they started fighting and police arrived."
The official, anonymity, requested because he was not authorized to talk about the conflicts, he said the Governor of Taiz, had spoken, said the security forces only in the air had shots. The official suggested that those who died in an exchange of gunfire between Government and police shot dead armed demonstrators had.
"The demonstrators have a plan of the escalation," he said.
Until recently demonstrations in Taiz surrounded largely weapons of checkpoints to a range of security forces and civilian run limited. But have in recent days demonstrators marching outside this range, apparently in an effort to pressure on the Government of ratchet wrench started.
Demonstrators staged also simultaneous major marches in two other areas of the city, and hundreds marched in Al Hudaydah, where the security forces fired to disperse tear gas and shots into the air to the masses. In addition to the two people were killed, dozens injured, including four policemen, were reported to the State News Agency.
In Sana'a on Monday over a half mile south of their sit-in responds demonstrators to reports of the Taiz violence by trying, area, according to Adel al-Suraby, a student leader protest March. Men in civilian clothes reacted stones at the protesters, said Mr Suraby, hurting at least five people.
Some demonstrators said that Taiz violence presents an opportunity for the United States are directly involved, Mr Saleh 32-year rule to end.
"We love America, and we need America's help," Mutahar Sufan, PhD student, said on Monday at a demonstration in Sana'a. "We want to hear not about negotiations between America and Saleh, or do we want to hear it from the media, what they want Saleh to leave." "We want to tell America, so we believe it."
Laura Kasinof reported from Sana and j. David Goodman of New York.
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