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SANAA (Reuters) - Mortar fire killed two Yemenis and wounded six in Sanaa on Tuesday in what appeared to be more fighting in the capital between soldiers loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and troops siding with anti-government protesters.
North of Sanaa, a newly appointed general was killed by armed pro-opposition tribesmen on his way to a military base in the mountainous region of Naham, where he was due to take command after his predecessor died in combat with tribal fighters last week.
A doctor said the victims in Sanaa were all civilians who were hit by a mortar round that landed in a market on Hayel street in a district contested by government troops and those of a rebel general, Ali Mohsen, a former Saleh ally. One of the dead was aged 14.
Residents further down Hayel street heard an exchange of gunfire but it was not clear whether that was part of the same clash.
The doctor said he had received death threats for helping the wounded and a bag of bullets had been slung into his yard as a warning.
"We are treating these protesters and civilians but the government wants to threaten us to stop us doing our job. Now they are threatening my family," he said.
Violence has been sporadic since Saleh's surprise return to Yemen from Saudi Arabia 10 days ago, but tensions are running high in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country, which is awash with guns.
Last month in Sanaa, political deadlock gave way to a military showdown between Saleh loyalists and Mohsen's forces. More than 100 people were killed in the fighting, most of them protesters caught in the middle.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis have so far failed.
The upheaval is fanning international fears that weakening government control may help al Qaeda's local wing expand its foothold in Yemen, which borders oil giant Saudi Arabia and lies near shipping routes through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
The army is fighting to regain territory lost to militants in the south, notably in Abyan province, where Islamist fighters control the city of Jaar and other locations.
At least ten militants were killed in one of two air force raids in the Jaar area on Tuesday, residents and a local official said, while three militants and a soldier were killed in a shootout in Abyan's provincial capital Zinjibar, which the government said it had recaptured from Islamist fighters last month.
In Sanaa, ruling party member Yahya al-Habari said he had escaped an assassination attempt by five masked gunmen as he left work.
"They came out and stood in front of the car. I told the driver we should drive the other way so we sped backwards while they were shooting. Thank God we got away," he said.
(Reporting by Erika Solomon, Mohammed Ghobari and Dhuyazen Mukhashaf; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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