The number of victims could not be confirmed immediately. Boshra al-Magtari, one of the protest leaders, said at least 20 people had been shot. Al Jazeera has reported hundreds of wounded.
The clashes began about the same area of the central city where demonstrators were killed on Monday, the most murderous far in six weeks of demonstrations demanding the immediate eviction of Mr. Saleh. As the demonstrators marched down a central street on Tuesday, they meet government security forces and civilian supporters and witnesses said military helicopters overflew the demonstration that the violence erupted. Clouds of tear gas have increased over the street.
"The thugs and the security forces fired on us, with direct fire," said Mahmud al-Shaobi, 33, a protester there when the violence began. "Many people have been slaughtered."
Supporters of the Government and the demonstrators have also fought in the streets of the capital, Sana'a, Tuesday. A small group of about 400 if is detached of the main event and walking to a large carrefour where they have been allowed by of men in launching of rocks and brandishing of daggers. The violence if is quickly as Government armed supporters are arriving in the cars and have open the fire, witnesses have said. Doctors at a nearby hospital said at least one person was dead with a bullet in the head and several others were injured.
The Government said a version different from the events, saying that soldiers loyal to major-General Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, who broke with Mr. Saleh last month, had fired on a peaceful pro-Government Tribal walk. Three people are dead and 15 wounded, the Agency of press official of Saba reported.
The various descriptions of the violence in Sana does were be reconciled immédiatement..
Yemen, a more and more in the region. Some US officials have raised doubts of clinging to power with protests supported across the country, Mr. Saleh contributes to dangerous instability of the Yemen. Control operations against terrorism in the country, the main reasons for the choirs of Mr. Saleh United States, were brutally, American diplomats and officials of the fight against terrorism.
Monday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner, called the violence to the "appalling." Yemen
Clashes fresh Tuesday came as the provincial Governor of Taiz said that he would form a Committee to investigate the "unfortunate events" of the previous day. Witnesses said security forces and supporters of the Government opened fire on Monday of rooftops and the street on tens of thousands of demonstrators. But the Government suggested that the deaths occurred in an exchange of fire between supporters of the Government in civil and armed demonstrators.
"We express our deep regret for the diversion of peaceful protests", the Governor, Hamoud al-Sufi, said in a statement. He accused the demonstrators of attacking the Presidential Palace and other buildings Government Monday.
On Tuesday, a regional coalition of six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, invited the Government and the opposition parties to Riyadh for talks on the crisis in the Yemen, Saba reported. Mr. Saleh welcomed the invitation. his political opposition does not respond immediately.
In the port of the Western City of Al Hudaydah Monday, two demonstrators were killed at night by gunfire of plainclothes supporters of the Government during a demonstration on the Presidential Palace there. Saba, the official State News Agency, confirmed the death.
Laura Kasinof of Sana, Yemen and j. David Goodman of New York.
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