Yemen protesters killed ahead of UN meeting
Police kill at least three people and wound hundreds, as UN Security Council prepares to discuss the country's crisis.
"Security forces" have opened fire on demonstrators in the capital Sanaa and Taiz, south of the capital, killing at least three people and injuring hundreds. The violence on Tuesday comes as the UN Security Council discusses the crisis in the country for the first time. Pro-democracy protesters have been demanding for two months the resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, who has ruled the country since 1978. Two people died and nearly 100 were hit by bullets when riot police stopped protesters marching towards Sanaa's main Zubeiri street, near the home of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the vice president, medic Mohammed Qobati said. Protesters stoned the riot police and set fire to a security vehicle, witnesses said. At least one person was also shot dead and another wounded in Taiz after police opened fire in the city when protesters burned tyres in the street. Organisers of the Taiz protest said that four people, including a newspaper photographer, were arrested.