SANAA, January 5, 2010 (AFP) - A guard of a banned newspaper in south Yemen was killed Tuesday in renewed clashes with police outside the publication's offices, while three policemen and three guards were wounded, witnesses said.

Police attempted to storm the offices of Al-Ayyam daily in Aden to arrest guards who had killed a policeman and wounded another on Monday when security forces were trying to disperse a demonstration protesting the continued ban of the newspaper, witnesses told AFP.

Clashes between police and the armed guards of the offices had been sporadic since before dawn, said the witnesses.

Among those sought after by the police is the daily's owner and editor, Hisham Bashraheel, who is wanted by prosecutors in Sanaa to stand trial for his alleged role in the murder of a man in front of the paper's offices in 2008.

Last year one person was killed and three wounded in a gunfight which erupted as police moved in to arrest Bashraheel.

The newspaper was closed by the authorities in May, a week before the gunfight.

Al-Ayyam, one of the largest newspapers in the south, was one of eight closed at the time over allegations of inciting separatism in the region amid a wave of deadly unrest there.