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One person was killed in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Friday when more than 10,000 people took to the streets demanding the impoverished country's veteran ruler to step down.

"The body of a 20-year-old man was taken to the hospital after he was shot in the head," a medical source in Aden’s Mualla district said.

At least 25 people were wounded, mostly by live bullets, in the demonstrations that started after Friday prayers, witnesses said. One of the wounded people was in critical condition.

Security forces set up checkpoints on roads leading to the seaport city to prevent demonstrators from neighbouring cities from joining protests in Aden, while armoured vehicles were stationed at the city’s main intersections.