June 4, 2011 (BBC)
Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh has flown to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, a day after he was wounded, Saudi officials say.
Uncertainty surrounded Mr Saleh’s whereabouts for much of Saturday.
Sources in Yemen told the BBC that Mr Saleh had a piece of shrapnel below his heart and second-degree burns to his chest and face.
An uprising demanding that Mr Saleh leave power has led to violence bringing Yemen close to civil war.
The Yemeni president arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh aboard a Saudi medical plane.
A Gulf nation diplomatic source told BBC Arabic that the decision to transfer Mr Saleh to Riyadh was taken after Saudi doctors consulted with a German medical team.
A second plane carried members of the president’s family, AFP news agency said, quoting an unnamed Saudi official.
