Yemen: Persons killed, wounded in a clash near the British embassy

Eye witnesses said that four persons including three police men were killed and other four wounded in a fire exchange in the surrounding of the British embassy in Sanaa, while a Yemeni official who asked to be anonymous said that two persons were killed in the clashes.

A Yemeni official said that the clashes started when Yemeni security guards prevented tribal men from entering the banned area near the British embassy as the men were going to attend a wedding. The Yemeni official added that one security man, and one member of Hashid tribe led by the speaker of the Yemeni parliament Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmad were killed in the incident.

Witnesses said that among the wounded is one of the children of Sheikh al-Ahmar and another person from the same tribe. They said that the fourth killed person is a buss driver which was near the embassy when the clashes took place.

An official source said that the "incident took place at a wedding party hall near the embassy which was not targeted," noting that the clashes took place when the police members asked members of the tribe to get rid of the weapons they are carrying." Other witnesses said that the area was blocked before the traffic, at a time when members of the tribe were stationed at the floor of a house near the embassy. A diplomat at the British embassy confirmed that the incident took place, but gave no mention to the outcome.