Gunmen kill 32 in attack in Ethiopia, administrator says
Gunmen killed have executed 32 people and torched
more than 20 houses in a raid on an area of western Ethiopia, a regional
administrator said on Monday.
The killings were carried out on Sunday by an armed
group called OLF Shane in the Western Wollega Zone of Oromiya region,
administrator Elias Umeta told Reuters.
"We buried today 32 of them. About 700 to 750
people were also displaced from the area," he said.
OLF Shane split from the Oromo Liberation Front
(OLF), an opposition party that spent years in exile but was allowed to return
to Ethiopia after Prime Minister Abiy Ahemd took office in 2018. Sporadic
violence has rocked Ethiopia since then.
OLF Shane says it is fighting for the right of the Oromos,
the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. But there was no immediate known motive
for the killings, Umeta said.
"They were executed after they were told by the
armed group they want to have a meeting with them," he said.
