Yemen police fired tear gas and live bullets at protesters holding an anti-regime demonstration in the city of Taez on Sunday, injuring at least 250 and shooting a protester dead, witnesses said.
"Between 250 and 300 protesters were injured, some with live bullets, as police opened fire to disperse a protest heading to the governorate headquarters," in the city that lies 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, a witness said.
Police continued to fire as security forces pushed back demonstrators to a square where they have been holding a sit-in as part of nationwide protests demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down, witnesses said.
A member of parliament who did not want to be named charged that police were "attempting to storm the sit-in square."
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