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Five Killed as Yemeni Police, Tribesmen Clash
Three Yemeni policemen and two armed tribesmen were killed and scores of others wounded in a shootout after an arms control incident flared up in the central province of Al-Baydha yesterday, local officials said. The shooting broke out when dozens of tribesmen gathered to protest the arrest of a fellow tribesman. They said the firefight took place outside a school hosting a meeting for a municipal board of Radaa city, some 130 kilometers south of Sanaa. The tribesman was arrested on Friday after he confronted policemen enforcing a a 10-year-old ban on carrying weapons in cities. Armed clashes are not unusual in Yemen, a largely tribal society where men carry firearms publicly and tribes often settle disputes with guns.
Posted by: Fred 2004-03-13 |
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