Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional female veils in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people.

Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional female veils today in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said.