Two Yemeni civilians were killed in clashes with police in a village of the southeastern Hadramawt province.

Two Yemeni civilians were killed in clashes with police in a village of the southeastern Hadramawt province.

Witnesses said clashes took place after hundreds of people took to streets of Shahr village on Wednesday night to protest the killing of a young villager by the police last week.

Security forces intervened to disperse the protesters, who set alight tyres and placed boulders in the streets to block traffic before police killed "two vendors" and wounded three other people, they said.
A medical official confirmed the toll.

The clashes continued late into the night, with some protesters setting shops on fire, according to residents contacted by AFP news agency on the phone from Aden, the main city in Yemen's south.

Tensions are high in southern and southeastern Yemen, where unrest has grown as the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been weakened by protests demanding his ouster since January.