Yemen: elections violence continues, two winning candidates, three police men killed

Three members of the Yemeni police and two opposition candidates who won elections of the municipal councils were killed on Thursday in the course of a wave of violence in Yemen resulted in killing 15 persons since the beginning of the election process on Tuesday in a referendum for extending the term of office for the President and the parliament and election of members of the local council.

An official source in the Yemeni police refused to be identified said that the policemen were on Thursday afternoon, exposed to " an attack by armed member at the Yemeni gathering for reforms" at a center for selecting votes at al-Hemyah district in Sanaa province.

The source added that other five persons including policemen were also wounded in the incident.

The source continued that the authorities were put in alert to avoid more attacks against the " Yemeni gathering for reforms."

Two Yemeni opposition parties expressed their condemnation to assassinating to elected members in the municipal council and accused the ruling people's congress party, implicitly, of being involved in these elections.

The two assassinated members were two independent candidates who joined the list of the Naserite unionist reform ( the Arab National).