A call for a ceasefire amid Yemen unrest.<br/> In the Capitol city of Sanaa security forces open fire on a protest march killing two people and wounding scores more. Similar reports out of Taiz, where residents say five civilians including a child were killed in crossfire between state troops and opposition fighters.<br/> The bloodshed prompted the government to sign a ceasefire with a dissident general in an effort to stop the violence.<br/> A local field hospital is inundated with injured protesters.<br/> They keep pouring in for treatment<br/> SOUNDBITE: Wounded demonstrator, saying (Arabic):<br/> "We were walking in the street of al Zeraah. They (security) told us walk in peace, and when we arrived, to the area (al Ga'a), they besieged us from behind, and a military vehicle sprayed us from the front, and then we were fired upon by bullets. They opened fire, threw stones at us, fired tear gas, water,"<br/> A government official says the deal between President Ali Abdullah Saleh's government and breakaway General Ali Mohsen took effect Tuesday afternoon.<br/> Several previous truce accords have failed to hold.<br/> A political standoff between Saleh and a scattered coalition of protesters escalated last month into bloody confrontations between government troops and dissident soldiers and tribesman.<br/> The latest agreement comes four days after a United Nations Security Council resolution condemned the violence in Yemen and urged Saleh to sign an initiative brokered by Gulf neighbors that would see him leave office after 32 years.<br/> More than a dozen people have been killed since then.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
