Yemen sends 700 soldiers to quell fighting that claims six lives and injured 60 others in clashes that erupt between two villages fighting over a local spring near Taiz. The village of Al-Marzuh believes it is entitled to exclusive use of a spring because it is located on their land; the neighboring village of Quradah believes their right to the water was affirmed in a 50-year-old court verdict. The dispute erupts in violence. President Ali Abdullah Saleh intervenes by summoning the sheikhs of the two villages to the capital, and sorts out the problem by dividing the water into halves.
