SANAA, March 13 (Xinhua) -- At least one protester was killed by gunshot in clashes with the police in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday and other 100 protesters wounded while clashing with the police in the capital of Sanaa, police and witnesses said.
An official of the Interior Ministry told Xinhua that one protester died of a random gunshot during clashes with the police in Aden on Sunday, while four policemen were injured.
The official, requesting anonymity, also said 140 riot policemen have been hospitalized due to injures of protesters' stones outside Sanaa University since Saturday.
Nadia Mohamed, a resident near the scene outside Sanaa University, told Xinhua that the clashes erupted after protesters provoked the policemen by throwing stones and showing their chests to the security personnel.
"Policemen moved back and responded with water cannon, live ammunition and tear gas," she said.
About 90 protesters were suffering from suffocation of tear gas and other ten were wounded by live ammunition and were in critical condition, she said, adding that security armored vehicles were deployed in al-Kuwait Street, in front of the protest sit-in, where around 100,000 demonstrators have been camping out for around three weeks.
Ali al-Fakih, a senior protest organizer confirmed that no one of the 100 injured in Sanaa was killed or died of wounds until now, and ten protesters who were seriously injured have been receiving treatment in Technology and Science Hospital, north of Sanaa University.
Daily protests were also reported on Sunday in Al-Hodayda, Ibb, Taiz, Lahj and Hadramout.
Pro-government rallies were held in Sanaa, Ibb on Sunday. The largest pro-government rally of tens of thousands supporters staged on Saturday in the northern province of Amran, according to state-run Saba news agency.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged earlier neither to seek another term nor to pass power to his son, promising to prepare transferring the power to parliament by the end of this year and re-calling on opposition to resume dialogue.
