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Summary At least 17 persons were killed and dozens injured as the security forces opened fire on protesters.
The violence started when the demonstrators marched on the governorate headquarters in the city to demand that President Ali Abdullah Saleh quit.The protesters stormed the courtyard of the governorate and plainclothes gunmen and rooftop snipers opened fire in an attempt to push them back, witnesses said. The army arrested dozens of protesters. According to a doctor of makeshift hospital near Freedom Square, bullets were hit in head and chests of the deceased protesters.In the western city of Hudaydah, witnesses said dozens of people were wounded by police gunfire and rocks in clashes on Monday, while hundreds of others needed treatment for breathing tear-gas.Nine people were shot and dozens were wounded in Hudaydah as police clashed with thousands of demonstrators marching on the Red Sea citys main local government building. Meanwhile, Fifty persons injured in stone throwing incidents.
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