SANAA - the Yemeni security forces have killed two demonstrators and wounded dozens Wednesday as rallies of mass demanding the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh paralyzed two cities Wednesday, residents and nurses said.
Snipers shot two demonstrators in Taiz as disorders in a third day running close main industrial city of the Yemen. Dozens were wounded by gunfire artillery, tear gas and beatings by officers in civilian, wielding bats, nurses in Taiz said.
Protesters retaliated by burning a building of the police, residents said.
Oil giant Saudi Arabia and the United States neighbors fear escalating violence could push Yemen impoverished, already riven by tribal and separatist, conflicts in the chaos which could be used by the wing based on the Yemen of al-Qaeda operate more freely.
The security forces in Taiz were trying to break up a blockade to protest the Ministry of education in the region, some 200 km (130 miles) South of the capital Sanaa.
But the demonstrators rather extended their blockade to complete public services and the Directorate-General of the Ministry of oil of Taiz. Residents, said that the city of 540 000 people has been effectively paralyzed.
"Shops are closed and the streets are completely empty of pedestrians, only demonstrators are around in the areas they face (security forces)," resident Wajdi said Abdullah.
Demonstrators also began life in the virtual Ibb city. "Almost all stores are closed to Ibb except a few sells basic food products." No one will work - it is unprecedented in this city, "said resident Ali Noaman.
The country of the Arabian peninsula was rocked by three months of daily protests and demonstrators frustrated by the unwillingness of Saleh to give up to about 33 years in power have sought new ways to release its grip.
Many called for extending a sporadic general strike in a daily event.
Yemen is facing a growing crisis of fuel that the tribes continue to blockade of long weeks of Maarib province, the main source of oil and gas. A shipping source told Reuters that the Government was losing about $ 3 million per day that exports have been blocked.
But this can be equally overwhelming for residents themselves for the Saleh Government.
A fragile economy of the Yemen is struggling to stay afloat, as the currency tumbling below 240 against the dollar and the price of necessities soar. This will increase the difficulties for the 40 per cent of the Yemen 23 million people living on less than $ 2 a day and one-third of them suffer from chronic hunger.
Residents in the more remote regions suffer also severe water shortages because trucks have been bringing shipments of water because of fuel rationing.
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