TAIZ, Yemen – At least 17 people were killed in clashes in the city of Taiz yesterday, a day after a UN envoy began a new mission to push President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit under a peace plan.
Witnesses and medical staff said at least 30 people were also injured when Saleh’s Republican Guards shelled some districts of Yemen’s third largest city – a hotbed of anti-Saleh protests, and in clashes some 200km south of Sanaa. Opposition tribal fighters reportedly killed two soldiers and wounded seven. – (Reuters)