One person has been killed and dozens were injured when police opened fire on protesters in the Yemeni capital Sana’a.

One man died and about 70 people were injured on Tuesday during clashes with the police in Sana’a.

On Monday, President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for a national dialogue conference, but the opposition’s rotating President, Yaseen Saeed Noman, rejected the proposal, which was made to defuse the tense situation.

Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured in the Yemeni government’s violent crackdown on anti-regime protests.