Hundreds of Socotra people took to the streets of capital Hadibo on Sunday protesting an acute shortage of wheat and flour in the island.
Protestors hurled stones on one of the Economic Corporation's stores, in a first ever riot on the island causing damages to the store.
The police then intervened, using bullets to disperse the protest.
The citizens accuse the corporation of manipulating the flour and wheat, saying officials have prevented large quantities of the two crucial foodstuffs, selling just slight quantities of them.
The people line up for long queues and it takes hours for one to get a wheat bag. And the saddest matter is that some people come back empty handed, they cried.