Republican Guard assaults Yemeni villages

26/6/2011 - Sahwa Net

 

Sahwa Net- Forces of the Republican Guard have continued on Sunday attacks on some villages in Arhab, an outskirt of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, local sources told Sahwa Net.  

 

Correspondent of Sahwa Net in Sana'a said that the Republican Guard used all sorts of heavy and medium weapons, pointing out that the attacks were severely focused on a house of a Yemeni opposition leader, Mansour Al-Haniq.

 

He said that a number of casualties fallen down, but there were no precise statistics about that, pointing  out that three students were among the wounded persons.

 

Yemen opposition alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties, has cautioned the Yemeni regime against committing crimes against Yemeni people.

 

In a press statement, JMP accused the Yemeni regime of punishing the Yemeni people through provoking economic crises, blockading roads, surrounding cities, breaking down electricity and   cutting supplies of oil derivatives.

 

JMP intensively denounced committing mass crimes with the aim of punishing those people who have been asking President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

 

Massive crowds of Yemenis have been taking to the streets across various Yemeni cities demanding the son of the wounded president leave the country and forming a transitional ruling council.