Three wounded in students riots in Sanaa

Acts of riots carried out by armed students near Sanaa university resulted in wounding three of the university guards, and the deployment of a large security force there on Thursday.

Sources close to the university said that a group of students from the Yemeni coalition party for reforms, which is an opposition Islamic party, wanted to impose elections without consulting establishments concerned, and the board of societies and the trade unions.

Witnesses said that a group of students broke into the study halls and threw sound bombs and fired bullets into the air, and this resulted in wounding three men of the university guards who tried to intercept them.

The witnesses added that the security forces detained three of the gunmen who are being investigated.

The Yemeni prime minister, Abdul Qader Bajmal, vowed to take necessary measures to punish those to contribute to these acts, and who violated the public orders using violence and terrorism.