At least six people were injured when the security forces fired live bullets at a demonstration in Yemen's western Hodeida province on Thursday.

Locals in Bajil city said hundreds of people poured onto the streets to condemn planned power outages, some of which last more than 20 hours a day, as severe crises including acute fuel, water and cooking gas shortages, persistent blackouts and battles in some cities continue in the country. 

The demonstrators closed Sana'a-Hodeida road and chanted slogans such as: we don't want nuclear electricity, but ordinary electric power. The demonstration was the most violent in weeks in Hodeida, with the security forces heavily firing live bullets and teargas to stop the protesters, the locals said.

 The people also accused the remaining officials of the Saleh regime of punishing all the Yemeni people, in particular those in Hodeida.

Days ago, the government said saboteurs attacked power towers in Sana'a and Marib provinces sending the Marib gas-fired power plant out of commission to plunge several cities in darkness.