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By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam
SANAA (Reuters) - Scattered clashes broke out across Yemen on Monday, with three soldiers killed in the north, as military forces were deployed to check nationwide protests demanding the resignation of President...
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By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:04pm EDT
SANAA (Reuters) - Scattered clashes broke out across Yemen on Monday, with three soldiers killed in the north, as military forces were deployed to check nationwide protests demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The impoverished Arabian Peninsula state has been rocked by weeks of demonstrations that have undermined Saleh's 32-year grip on power, with both pro- and anti-government supporters appearing to resort increasingly to violence in the struggle.
Seven demonstrators and three soldiers have died in clashes since Saturday, raising the death toll from unrest above 30.
The United States, which has long seen Saleh as a bulwark against a dynamic al Qaeda wing based in Yemen, has condemned the bloodshed and backed the right for peaceful protest, but has insisted only dialogue can end the political crisis.
Two soldiers and an officer were killed as clashes broke out in the northern al-Jawf province, which borders oil giant Saudi Arabia, Yemen's state news agency Saba said.
Fighting intensified after protesters stormed a municipal building. Security forces fired on them, wounding 10, but could not stop them seizing the building, a local official said.
In the central Maarib province, where several oil and gas fields of international companies are located, a man stabbed governor Naji Zayedi, critically wounding him as he and police tried to break up a crowd of thousands at a sit-in.
"Members of the opposition stabbed the governor and wounded three others as security tried to stop protesters from inciting chaos," a local official said.
OIL TRANSPORT BY TRUCKS SUSPENDED IN SOUTH
In the southern province of Shabwa, an official at Austrian oil firm OMV said the company had suspended its transports of crude by trucks from an oil field to the pumping station of a pipeline because of the unrest.
"The suspension is temporary and due to the current security instability," the official told Reuters, without saying how much oil was carried by trucks and what portion of it was for export.
Yemen is a small oil producer pumping about 300,000 barrels per day of crude.
As tensions in Yemen rose, three journalists and a researcher from Britain and the United States were abruptly deported on Monday. An airport official said they had all entered on tourist visas and were not entitled to work there.
Saleh has made many verbal concessions to the protesters, promising to step down in 2013 and offering a new constitution giving more powers to parliament, but he has steadfastly refused his critics' main demand that he leave office immediately.
Soldiers and armored vehicles tried to cut off an area in the capital, where around 20,000 have held a sit-in for weeks.
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