By Xinhua,
Sana’a : Hundreds of angry protesters stormed the Egyptian consulate in southern Yemeni city Aden to protest against Cairo’s role in the ongoing Israeli military offensive on Gaza.
The protesters stormed the two-story consulate’s front gate and threw computers from windows while setting fire to the Egyptian flag, said media reports reaching here from Aden.
A Yemeni security official was quoted as saying that most of the protesters were local university students who were later removed peacefully from the building surrounded by heavy security forces.
The incident caused no casualties, according to the reports.
The Gaza Strip was under intensive Israeli air strikes for the four successive day on Tuesday, during which some 360 Palestinians have so far been killed in the powerful offensive which Israel said was aimed at halting nearly daily cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
However, many Arabs and Muslims are accusing Egypt of giving the green light to the Israeli assault on Gaza.