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Summary Security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas into the crowd to break it up.
Yemeni security forces opened fire on a massive anti-government demonstration in, killing 12 protesters and wounding 190 others.The violence broke out as about 100,000 government opponents filled a landmark square at the epicenter of the uprising. Witnesses said security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas into the crowd to break it up. Residents in 18 cities and towns across Yemen launched a civil disobedience campaign in an escalation of the more than two-month-old uprising to bring down long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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