Armed men supporting protesters trying to topple Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed a security chief and two bodyguards in Taiz on Friday, an official said, and four civilians were killed by mortar rounds. Up to 7,000 protesters took to the streets in Yemen's third city that has become the cradle of Yemen's protest movement, some 200 km (120 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, where more anti-Saleh protests took place after Friday prayers.
The local government official said the armed men ambushed the car belonging to the area's head of security. Three others in the entourage were critically wounded. Six months of protests against Saleh's three decade-rule have paralysed several cities across Yemen.
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