At least seven antigovernment protesters were injured when pro-regime people attacked a demonstration in Yemen’s Ibb province on Wednesday.
The demonstrators were attacked after they had conducted a sit-in before the governorate building in protest at the rising prices of fuel, local said. The regime supporters fired live bullets at the protesters from the rooftop of a hotel injuring seven of them, three in critical condition.
The antigovernment protesters besieged the attackers and burned one of their cars, locals said.
In the past few days, local media quoted officials at the Yemen Petroleum Company as saying that the company has decided to increase the prices of fuel by 150 percent.
During the sit-in, women walked in the first lines carrying wood and ancient lamps to express their fury amid the acute fuel, water and cooking gas shortages, persistent power outages and other crises.
The women also donated jewels to the square of freedom in IBB, as others chanted slogans condemning the collective punishment of the Yemeni people and other crimes by the remaining officials within the Saleh regime.
Several people were also injured in other provinces after the people took to the streets to protest the prices hikes and severe crises.
In some provinces including Aden, injuries were reported after the police clashed with the protesters.
Meantime, the month-long sit-ins are continuing in almost 17 of the Yemeni provinces, with hundreds of thousands determined not to leave their places until the goals of the popular youth-led revolution were met.
Separately, the republican guard forces have withdrawn from Taiz streets amid reports the truce between the army and the armed people defending the popular uprising was put into effect.