Almotamar Net - Seven soldiers, three students and a teacher have been injured in separate aggressions committed by elements of the movement against schools and trade shops in the centre of Al-Dhalie city, Yemen on Monday.

Monday, 25-January-2010
Almotamar.net - Seven soldiers, three students and a teacher have been injured in separate aggressions committed by elements of the movement against schools and trade shops in the centre of Al-Dhalie city, Yemen on Monday.

The so-called movement elements had at early morning of Monday attacked a police patrol causing the injury of seven soldiers, two of them seriously wounded.

Local sources told almotamar.net that the elements opened intensive fire on a police patrol because the elements� call for declaring a strike in the city today has failed.

Eyewitnesses said that terrorist elements of the movement carried out acts of blocking the way of students and aggressions on a number of schools in an attempt to close them down. In Zabid area of the city three students and a teacher were injured when the terrorist elements threw a grenade on a classroom o the school to frighten students and force them to leave the school. The injured persons were taken to hospital for treatment while parents of students clashed with the terrorist elements of the movement and returned students to school.

In other areas of the city the sabotage elements attacked other schools where one student was injured while other elements set fire to a restaurant and attacked trade shops in downtown.

Eyewitnesses have affirmed to almotamar.net failure of the civilian disobedience that was imposed at gunpoint , indicating that some shops and some schools closed down for fear of the movement elements fire but work at government offices and hospitals was normal.

Later the correspondent of almotamar.net said that the people and some students managed to capture the element that threw the grenade in the school yard and opened fire on students, which caused the injury of three students and a teacher.

This story was printed at: Friday, 19-April-2024 Time: 10:38 PM
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