Yemenis see Saleh injuries as spur for new regime

PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen suffered far more serious injuries than first reported during an attack on his presidential palace last week, including a collapsed lung and burns over 40% of his body, it has been claimed.

Thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Yemeni vice-president’s residence, demanding the acting leader form a transitional council to create a new government.

Around 4,000 demonstrators in Sanaa, the capital, who have spent five months calling for Saleh to step down, called for a “million-man march” for Saleh to stay in Saudi Arabia, where he has been treated since Friday.