Yemen denies jailbreak in south
Source: paltelegraph
Sana’a, Yemen, April 3, 2010 ( Pal Telegraph, by Anwar Al-Shoaybi)- Yemen on Thursday denied reports that about 30 detainees recently rounded up by police forces had fled following a bomb blast outside a prison in the southern Yemeni city of Dalea.
A statement from the Yemeni Ministry of Interior said that “Reports of prisoners escaping from jail are totally groundless”.Security sources had reported that a tussle flared up outside a police station close to the prison between security men and protestors participating in a mass anti-government demonstration in Dhale’a.
One of the detained protestors then pelted a bomb he was hiding at the police, wounding two policemen and three demonstrators, according to the sources. They said that around 30 of those just apprehended took to their heels after the explosion.
Sources from the Southern Protest Movement said that the bomb was hurled at the protestors by police. However, the Ministry statement said that one protestor tossed a bomb at the police, injuring six persons.
Also on Thursday, a man was killed and five others were injured as polices forces fired tear gas and live bullets to break up a mass demonstration staged by southern secessionists in the city of Radfan, local sources reported.
They said that protestors brandished weapons as they held up flags of the former People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen as well as portraits of the former president, Ali Salem Al-Beedh.
Mass protests in south Yemen have recently gained a momentum owing to the Yemeni government’s policy of ignoring southerners’ demands for power-sharing and wealth-sharing.
Some southern leaders have even declared preference for a split from the north, and calls from opposition parties for Sana’a to open a comprehensive national dialogue with southerners in order to defuse the stand-off have apparently fallen on deaf ears.
Sana’a, Yemen, April 3, 2010 ( Pal Telegraph, by Anwar Al-Shoaybi)- Yemen on Thursday denied reports that about 30 detainees recently rounded up by police forces had fled following a bomb blast outside a prison in the southern Yemeni city of Dalea.
A statement from the Yemeni Ministry of Interior said that “Reports of prisoners escaping from jail are totally groundless”.Security sources had reported that a tussle flared up outside a police station close to the prison between security men and protestors participating in a mass anti-government demonstration in Dhale’a.
One of the detained protestors then pelted a bomb he was hiding at the police, wounding two policemen and three demonstrators, according to the sources. They said that around 30 of those just apprehended took to their heels after the explosion.
Sources from the Southern Protest Movement said that the bomb was hurled at the protestors by police. However, the Ministry statement said that one protestor tossed a bomb at the police, injuring six persons.
Also on Thursday, a man was killed and five others were injured as polices forces fired tear gas and live bullets to break up a mass demonstration staged by southern secessionists in the city of Radfan, local sources reported.
They said that protestors brandished weapons as they held up flags of the former People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen as well as portraits of the former president, Ali Salem Al-Beedh.
Mass protests in south Yemen have recently gained a momentum owing to the Yemeni government’s policy of ignoring southerners’ demands for power-sharing and wealth-sharing.
Some southern leaders have even declared preference for a split from the north, and calls from opposition parties for Sana’a to open a comprehensive national dialogue with southerners in order to defuse the stand-off have apparently fallen on deaf ears.
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