WORLD BRIEFING / YEMEN
A Yemeni soldier was killed and 14 people were wounded in an attack by armed anti-government protesters at a checkpoint in south Yemen, where separatist sentiment remains strong.
Ten of the wounded were soldiers and the rest civilians, witnesses said. The attack in Mukalla followed clashes between police officers and protesters at an opposition rally overnight. Cars and shops were attacked during the earlier flare-up. Officials were not available for comment.
The clashes followed a rally to mark a civil war in 1994 when the authorities under President Ali Abdullah Saleh crushed southern forces.
The separate states of North and South Yemen had united under a fragile political agreement in 1990. Many southerners still talk about marginalization.
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