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Violence in south Yemen after separatist’s arrest
Another grand time in Ye Olde Yemen ...
ADEN, Yemen - Gunmen attacked a military checkpoint outside a south Yemen city on Thursday and demonstrators tried to break into a jail to protest against a southern separatist leader’s arrest, local officials said.

The checkpoint clash occurred hours before about 4,000 people, according to local residents, took to the streets in the southern city of Dalea for a second day of protests against Tuesday’s arrest of the leader of a southern secessionist group. Hasan Baoum is accused of planning illegal demonstrations.

A Dalea official said a group of protesters broke away and made an attempt to break into a local prison, but were driven off by police.

Hours after the protest, gunmen threw a grenade at a military vehicle at a checkpoint, setting it ablaze and wounding four soldiers. Two gunmen, suspected separatists, were wounded in the attack, a security official in Dalea said.
Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-12
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