Witnesses: government supporters attacked the camp, several injured : news from middle east
pro-government loyalists attacked and opened fire on anti-government sit-in participants in Sana'a, Yemen, Tuesday evening, with at least three sit-in participants and seriously injured several others injured after a sit-in participants and observers of the scene.
"They attacked and shot randomly," said human rights activist Khaled Al-Anesi of the HOOD Yemeni organization CNN.
Tom Finn, a provider of Yemen Times newspaper, said that he arrived at the place outside of Sanaa University just shooting happened shortly after 23
"I saw young students are transported in the middle and put in the medical tent," Finn told CNN. "I saw two students and a bleeding from the head of bleeding in the chest. And I saw five ambulances leaving the hospital."
Witness accounts, the scene was that about 20 people were injured and at least eight anti-government protesters were killed and three of them are in critical condition in hospital.
Earlier in the day sit-in participants had passed a car and fired after they discovered guns inside apparently led to a demonstration of supporters of the government, "said one protester.
The protesters have noticed a car parked near the conquest and was told that the car was the Republican party of government that had come to harass them, one of the demonstrators, Adnan al-Nath.
Several hundred students gathered in the car to deal with those inside, who then fled, he said. The protesters ransacked the vehicle and found a rifle and a pistol, the "Nathan told CNN. Students then reversed the car and set it on fire.
Nobody was reported injured in the incident.
The Council had no comment on the case.
Sit-in at Sanaa University is one of at least five protests on Tuesday, through Yemen. There are other Aden and Taiz and Ibb provinces and Lahja.
Monday ', the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has rejected calls to step aside, comparing the anti-government demonstrations in the region is a disease poses.
"This is a virus and is not part of our heritage and culture of the people of Yemen," he told reporters. "It is a virus that came from Tunisia to Egypt. And some areas, the smell of the mouth is like the flu. As soon as you sit with someone who is infected, it is infected."
Saleh added that these changes should try to accept the reforms he has proposed. He had previously said he would not seek another term in 2013 after being in power for 32 years. He also said that postponing the legislative elections scheduled for April to allow more time for discussions on reform.
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