Sana'a: Armed men, believed to be loyal to the Southern Movement, continued to attack voting centres in the southern Yemen in an attempt to prevent holding the presidential election in the south.
On Wednesday , a man tossed a grenade into an election committee in the southern port city of Aden .The grenade went off and no one was reportedly hurt .
Elsewhere in the south, gunmen attacked on Wednesday morning a voting centre in the southern province of Lahj,a local journalist told Gulf News.
Also in Lahj province, police managed to defuse a bomb planted near the door of a polling center in Hutta town.
The same journalist said that the movement's armed men set up checkpoints between the southern provinces, looking for election boxes.
"These inspect all vehicles that pass through the checkpoint."
He stated the many of the southern provinces are out of the central government control and it will be difficult for election committee to work smoothly.
"I don’t think that the state will be able to hold the election in the districts of Dhale, Radhfan and Yafa'a . There is no presence of the government forces since 2007. When the government was stronger than today in the past, the government could not control these places even by forces. This issue must be politically addressed."
Young man killed
On Tuesday ,a young man was killed when he was trying to plant a bomb near voting centre in Aden city.
On February 21, Yemenis have been called to vote for a single presidential candidate who will replace the country's outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh activists of the southern separatist movement are calling their supporters to escalate their protests against election, claiming that it goes against their goal of reviving the former South Yemen state.
Both presidential candidate, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and the interim Prime Minister, Mohammad Basendoua, are from the south.
