One killed in clashes in southern Yemen ONE person has reportedly been killed and three injured in an exchange of fire between security forces and suspected secessionist insurgents in southern Yemen. The independent website Yemen News, citing medical sources, said on Saturday the dead man was a passer-by caught in the crossfire between the two sides in the southern port city of Aden. However, officials in the separatist Southern Movement said he was one of its supporters and accused police of killing him. Meanwhile, insurgents suspected of affiliation to the Southern Movement torched stores owned by northerners in the southern city of Hadramawt, reported Yemen News. "They attacked my store, claiming I belong to the occupation forces," the site quoted a shop owner as saying. The unrest came two days after three people were killed and dozens injured in a crackdown by police at an anti-government protest in Aden. The Southern Movement calls for independence or autonomy for the former Marxist republic of South Yemen, which merged with more populous North Yemen in 1990. Aden was the capital of the former South Yemen and is a stronghold of secessionists.