Prisoners killed
Meanwhile, three prisoners at a Sanaa prison were reported killed and four others injured, Sharif Mobley, an inmate, told Al Jazeera via phone.
Dozens more were injured as a consequence of the unrest, which began on Monday, when around 2,000 prisoners staged riots, taking a dozen guards hostage.
The inmates set their blankets and mattresses on fire before occupying the prison’s main courtyard, an official who declined to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media said.
The guards fired tear gas and gunshots into the air but failed to subdue the prisoners, the official added.
“At the moment there is no violence, there is no fighting,” Mobley said on Tuesday morning, “but the situation is really looking very bad”.
“The offices of the prison official have been burned down and the guards have all left and are now outside,” he said.
“Authorities are outside the prison gates and we are inside the prison. We don’t want to make any problems and are afraid for our lives.”
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, said the “situation has not yet been contained”.
“We have been told by different sources and inmates that the situation is really delicate … inside the jail. It is has [also] become very tense in the capital,” said our correspondent.
Yemen has been rocked by protests inspired by recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that ousted those nations’ leaders.
Many protesters are angry at widespread corruption in a country where 40 per cent live on $2 a day or less and where university graduates without connections struggle to get jobs. Youth unemployment is rampant.
Yemen is also riven with regional strife, with Shia rebels in the north and separatists in the south demanding fairer political participation.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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