Seven people were killed in violence across Yemen on Monday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he welcomed the UN resolution urging him to quit but failed to say if he will comply and resign. Regime loyalists opened fire randomly on civilians in Yemen's second-largest city Taez killing a child and wounding another, medics and witnesses said.
"A seven-year-old boy was killed by live rounds while a five-year-old was wounded," a medical official told AFP. Witnesses confirmed saying that armed supporters of Saleh were randomly shooting on the streets of Taez as his troops shelled neighbourhoods in the city's north, allegedly targetting armed dissidents.
An armed man from tribes backing the protest in Taez was killed in dawn clashes with Saleh's forces, a tribal source said. In the capital Sanaa, tribes backing the nine-month protest movement against Saleh clashed with his loyalists on Monday, witnesses said, after weekend gunfights left more than 20 dead. The firefight in north Sanaa began after midnight and continued into the morning in Al-Hassaba neighbourhood, the base of tribesmen led by Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, a fierce foe of Saleh, residents said.
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