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"The death toll has gone up to 17," said Sadeq al-Shujaa, head of a makeshift field hospital at a square in central Taez after security forces opened fire on demonstrators marching on the local governorate headquarters.
Witnesses said the demonstrators stormed the courtyard of the governorate and that plainclothes gunmen and rooftop snipers also took part in the gunfire to push them back.
The bloodshed, a day after another protester was shot dead in Taez, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital, sent the death toll to more than 100 in a crackdown on protests in the impoverished state since late January.
On the ground in Sanaa, soldiers from units whose commanders have sided with protesters intervened on Monday to prevent about 200 police from taking on thousands of demonstrators camped since February at a square in central Sanaa.
In the western city of Hudaydah, witnesses said dozens of people were wounded by police gunfire and rocks, while hundreds of others needed treatment for tear-gas inhalation. Thirteen people were shot and wounded in Hudaydah late on Sunday, witnesses said, as police clashed with thousands of demonstrators marching on the Red Sea city's main local government building.