A prisoner was killed and six others injured when guards controlled the situation inside Al-Mansoura Jail in Yemen’s Aden province, local sources said on Monday.
The guards fired live bullets and tear gas to disperse a number of inmates who were holding a strike in protest at their abuse by the jail administration, the locals said. The six who were injured were in critical condition and there were reports they were beaten so badly.
The prisoners held their strike after they were denied meals and other needs and during the strike some of them went to the roof of the jail forcing the guards to intervene.
The guards fired live bullets and teargas at and beat them. There were also reports that the guards intervened after they had seen armed people outside the jail trying to release inmates.
The guards clashed with inmates and the armed people firing live bullets and teargas leaving several killed and injured, reports said.
In Sana’a, four tents inside Change Square outside Sana’a University where tens of thousands have been conducting a six-month sit-in to call for the ouster of the regime.
A blaze blamed on an electric fault broke out at the square southern part ravaging four medical tents, but there were no casualties, sources at the square said.
The accident coincided with reports that pro-regime forces and people have planned to break into the square and disperse the antigovernment protesters.
Most recently, pro-regime people held demonstrations in Sana’a and chanted slogans threatening to remove all tents.
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