At least 30 killed in armed attack in Ethiopia

SANAA, April 1 (YPA) – Witnesses said, on Wednesday, that gunmen killed 30 people in an attack on a village in the western Ethiopian Oromia region late Tuesday evening.

“Those who survived the attack, in which 15 other people were injured, blamed the” OLF Chen “group, Wosen Andareghi, a farmer in the area, told Reuters. However, representatives of the group could not be reached for comment.

“We took the bodies in a car, and we buried 30 people,” Wosen said.

He dded that he heard gunshots when the attackers arrived, and that he and his family fled to a nearby government office, where they were waiting for protection from federal forces.

Meanwhile, the Oromia Region Communications Office said in a statement that an unknown number of civilians were killed in what it described as a “terrorist attack,” adding that “the region is sad because of this horrific and heinous attack.”

Olf Chen is a splinter group from the Oromo Liberation Front, an opposition party that spent years banned but was allowed to return after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018.