18 March 2011
Mohamed Yahia Al-Malayia and Jamal Al-Sharabi
Crossfire
Mohamed Yahia Al-Malayia, the correspondent of the newspaper Al-Salam, died from the gunshot wound he received when he was hit by a sniper during the deadly attack by government forces on demonstrators in Sanaa’s Change Square on 18 March.
The toll from the shooting was at least 52 dead and 126 wounded. Malayia’s death brings the number of Yemeni journalists killed since the start of the unrest in Yemen to two. The other fatality was Al-Masdar photographer Jamal Al-Sharabi, who was also a victim of the shooting in Change Square on 18 March.
