Two people have been killed and seven others injured in the violence that accompanied complementary elections for vacant parliamentary seats in some of Yemen's 21 provinces.
The casualties were reported in the provinces of Dhale in the south Yemen and Rima in the north.
Two were killed and five hurt as clashes erupted between the civilians and the security forces in Dhale province after accusing the government of using force for carrying out the complementary elections in the city.
Among the hurt were two policemen including a police chief.
The clashes erupted on Thursday and they resumed on Friday when the security forces attacked armed people and villages with tanks, the Alsahwa website reported.
The armed civilians, according to the website, seized a security patrol in the province which has seen much violence this year when separatists staged anti-government and unity protests that turned violent.
Fans of the southern anti-government movement [separatists] were part of the confrontations that followed mass arrests including those of local officials at electoral committees and others who opposed the elections.
Violence has been reported at many constituencies amid large boycott and low turn out at the elections described by the opposition as unlawful.
Two others were reported injured in Rima after they protested vote rigging in favor of the Ruling Party's candidate.
The violence has also blocked the vote in Dhale and Jawf.
In Jawf, the poll stations were closed after the Ruling Party's candidate seemed to lose.
Other provinces such as Taiz and Dhamar saw very low turn-out and vote rigging was large.
Meanwhile, the opposition has held the government accountable for the worsening situation, calling the elections as illegal and denouncing attacking the people and villages in the south.