Clashes broke out between security force and Southern Movement followers on Sunday in the southeastern Yemeni province of Hadramout, leaving a protester killed and 5 others wounded.
Security forces removed a tent set up by the Southern Movement protesters, who call for boycotting the upcoming presidential election, in Al-Mokalla, the provincial capital of Hadramout, but the protesters tried to hold them back, resulting in clashes between the two sides.
Security forces shot one killed and wounded 5 others in the clashes, eyewitnesses and medics said.
Angry about removing their tent, which was set up in the middle of a main road, Separation supporters broke into a police station and forcibly released their captured friends.
A lot of indigenous people took to streets, cut off the roads and closed shops to protest against the killing of their fellow protester, Majed al-Hamdi, who died in a local hospital a couple of hours after being shot in the head, according to eyewitnesses.
Separation or Southern Movement refused to be involved in signing the GCC-drawn deal as they refuse to remain part of the unified Yemen. They demand to secede from Yemen and have their own southern independent state.
Massive popular protests calling for an end to the authoritarian role of President Ali Abdullah Saleh combined with al-Qaeda insurgency in the south, Shiite rebellion in the far north and increasing calls for the separation of the south has shaken Yemen to the bone, leaving thousands killed, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse and triggering a catastrophic humanitarian disaster.
Saleh, who is in USA for medical treatment, has signed a deal under which he relinquished power to Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, the consensus candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.