More Yemenis killed after the election results
Yemen, Politics, 2/24/2001

Yemeni police sources said that five persons including two policemen were killed in armed conflicts took place to the west and south East of Sanaa. A matter which increases number of victims of the election competition to 20 since the beginning of voting for these elections on Tuesday.

A security source at the higher election committee said that two policemen and two persons were killed on Thursday evening in al-Hemya to the west of the capital in fire exchange between candidates from the ruling general people's congress and its rival the Islamic reforms party in the local elections.

The independent candidate Zein Allah Saleh was killed on Friday and four persons were wounded; they were one civilian and three police men in confrontations in al-Beida, South east of Sanaa.

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