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FILE PHOTO: Members of the militias from the Amhara region travel in their truck as they head to the mission to confront the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region, near the border with Tigray , Ethiopia, November 9, 2020. REUTERS / Tiksa Negeri // File photo reuters_tickers
This content was published on Nov 14, 2020 05:21
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Two explosions erupted in two different cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara state, neighboring the northern state of Tigray, where federal troops are fighting local forces.
The explosions were reported in Bahir Dar and Gondar, the Amhara communications office and state news service said late on Friday.
Investigations had begun to establish whether the blasts were related to the fighting in Tigray, the Amhara communications office said, without giving details of the victims.
Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent the national defense force on an offensive against well-trained local troops on November 4, after accusing them of attacking a federal military base in the area.
The United Nations, the African Union and others are concerned that the fighting could spread to other parts of the second most populous country in Africa and destabilize the broader Horn of Africa region.
(Written by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Kim Coghill)
