SANAA – Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gun battles in the capital, government officials said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s three-decade-long rule threatened to ignite civil war. Residents were fleeing Sanaa by the hundreds, hurriedly fastening possessions to the roofs of cars, hoping to escape the violence that has killed more than 40 people since Monday and threatened to spread into other parts of the capital Sanaa. The defence ministry said in an Internet posting that at least 28 people were killed in an explosion in an arms storage area of Sanaa in Thursday’s early hours. Yemen’s state prosecutor ordered the arrest of “rebellious”…
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