SANA, Yemen - clashes broke out late Saturday night between security forces and protesters here, killed a demonstrator and wounding 15, said doctors, in a field hospital at the site.
Security forces opened fire, said 52 protesters more than three weeks of witnesses in the first direct attack on demonstrators in the capital since sniper ago killed. The shooting follows Taiz, where security forces and men in civilian clothes turned deadly about 20 demonstrators, a week of violence in a central city.
Saturday's violence began after a group of about 400 demonstrators tried to March the Presidential Palace in the late evening. They were stopped at a major intersection of security forces over half a mile away from their main sit-in area.
After an hour of a tense standoff, shots began. Plainclothesmen, wielding weapons, were the police standing around and had surrounded the area where the protesters from the site had canceled most important protest. Two water cannon was also the area.
The demonstrators had an area of migrated where protesters guarded soldiers under General Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, top military leader who broke with the Government last month.
After the shots scattered the protesters temporarily, although some returned, chanted "Peacefulness, quiet" and "There is no God but Allah."
"they first shot and then shot in the air they us", said Mustafa Amrany, a 14-year-old boy who was on the floor of a nearby mechanic shop after exposed to tear gas. He said: "I am not young." I'm here with the protest, "while Ismael Mohamed, mechanics, water poured his burning eyes." Before the violence broke out Saturday, the atmosphere was tense, and at regular intervals the protesters taunts yelled out to the security forces.
"We are escalating our protests," said Ziad Rahim, 23, before the gunfire broke. Most area leaving main protest seemed in their 20s. Many wore t-Shirts with the words "Project martyr" in Arabic.
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