Yemen ceasefire but 10 more are killed

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Source: The Guardian

An uneasy ceasefire in the Yemeni capital has followed a day of gruesome fighting in which government forces shelled a protest encampment, killing six people and injuring dozens.

The truce, negotiated by Yemen's vice-president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and several foreign envoys, follows the worst bout of violence seen in Yemen since protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began in earnest in February.

Sixty-two people, most of them young men, have been killed and hundreds wounded in three days of violence in Sana'a. International attention is once again fixed on the Arab world's poorest country and its eight-month fight to oust Saleh.

At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital. As the conflict raged through the morning, mortars crashed into Change Square, causing havoc in the tented shanty town, where protesters have been camping out since February.

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