Four demonstrators were killed and seven wounded when Yemeni soldiers opened fire on demonstrators on Friday in Semla city, located 170 km north of Sanaa, a local official said.
“Two of the nine injured have died”, said the local government official, adding that the death toll is now four.
Earlier, a representative of Shiite rebellion declared that “two demonstrators were killed and nine others wounded” by trucks of soldiers, who took military position against a rally demanding the departure of President Ali Abdallah Saleh.
Shiite Rebellion said on its website that the army trucks had made “dozens of casualties”, dead and wounded, without offering a precise balance.
Shiite Rebellion in northern Yemen joined the protest movement in the country, which required for several weeks the leaving of President Saleh, in power for 32 years.