17 killed in attack on Yemen protesters

SANAA: Troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed at least 17 people in an assault early on Saturday in the capital Sanaa, witnesses and a medic told AFP.

"Seventeen people were killed and 55 others were wounded" in the attack, said Mohammed al-Qabati, a medic at the field hospital in Sanaa's Change Square.

Some of those killed were civilians, while others were soldiers from dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar's First Armoured Brigade, Qabati told AFP.