Six hurt in grenade attack

Six people were wounded in a grenade explosion in southern Yemen on Monday as police tried to break up a protest against high living costs in one of the poorest countries on the planet.

Two of the wounded were taken to hospital in the port city of Aden after the blast in Dhaleh, some 130 kilometres away, witnesses said.

The state news agency Saba said three people were wounded, including a policeman, and that a suspected assailant was arrested.

Police also intervened in Aden itself where dozens of demonstrators were rounded up as they tried to organise a protest in the centre of town, witnesses said.

The protests mark the first anniversary of widespread demonstrations in Yemen's southern and eastern provinces to condemn the soaring cost of living and to demand better public services.

There has since been a spate of demonstrations in southern Yemen to call for greater state aid for the more than 60,000 people retired early from army or civil service jobs following a 1994 bid to restore the south's independence.

South Yemen united with the north in 1990. The bid to end the union four years later sparked a deadly civil war.

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