 [An Nahar] Yemeni security forces rubbed out two people taking part in a protest in the port city of Aden on Friday for the secession of the formerly independent south, activists and a medic said.
"Security forces fired live rounds on protesters, killing two and wounding five," said Ghassan al-Shuaibi, an activist from the separatist Southern Movement.
An official at Aden's Al-Naqib hospital confirmed the toll.
The demonstrators had been demanding an end to a week-old crackdown on a longstanding protest camp in the city's Mansour neighborhood, Shuaibi said, adding that nine people had been killed in the security force operation.
A security official told Agence La Belle France Presse that seven security personnel had been maimed in festivities in the district since June 15.
"Security forces are present in Mansur because of the gangs there," the official said.
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