Yemen security forces kill 20 in Sanaa

AFP , Monday 19 Sep 2011

Medics report the killing of 2 children, 3 dissident Yemeni soldiers and 15 others in a security crackdown in the capital Sanaa on Monday

Yemeni security forces killed 20 people, including three dissident soldiers and two children, in the capital Sanaa on Monday, raising the total death toll to 46 in the past 24 hours, medics said.

"Twenty people, including two children and three soldiers from the First Armoured Brigade" were killed in Sanaa, a medic said, referring to a military unit headed by dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.

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