Forty Dead as Yemeni Violence Intensifies After Saleh Returns
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More than 40 Yemenis died and dozens were wounded in two days of fighting in Sana’a between Yemeni forces and opposition members following the return to the country of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The casualty toll from an attack by Saleh loyalists on the Change Square protest camp in the center of the capital has risen to 18 dead and 54 wounded, said Mohammed al-Abahi, head of the field clinic at the camp. The attack began yesterday.