Dozens wounded by celebratory Yemen gunfire

YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh is out of intensive care in Saudi Arabia where he is being treated for bomb blast wounds, prompting celebratory gunfire that hurt dozens of people.

Saleh’s troops killed two pro-protester gunmen in the southern protest hub of Taez while fighting intensified in the southern town of Zinjibar, held by suspected al-Qaida members since last month.

Fireworks crackled over Sanaa on Wednesday night as Saleh loyalists took to the streets “feting the success of the surgery... and his transfer from intensive care to a royal suite” in a Riyadh hospital, Saba state news agency said.