At least 8 Somali civilians killed by a militia in Ethiopia
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Shabelle Media Network
At least eight Somali civilians, including women and children, were killed on Saturday morning by an armed Oromo militia in southern Ethiopia, near the Kenyan border. Local authorities attribute the attack to this militia, although the circumstances could not be independently verified.
At least eight Somali civilians, including women and children, were killed on Saturday morning in southern Ethiopia, near the Kenyan border, according to local authorities cited by the Anadolu agency. Those authorities attribute the attack to an armed Oromo militia, an Ethiopian ethnic group, which targeted a pastoralist camp at Malkamari, in Mubaarak district, Dawa zone. According to local information, the attackers caught residents asleep before opening fire. The toll could not be independently verified.
These killings are part of a series of violent incidents, including fighting in Moyale, a border town in northern Kenya. On Friday, the governor of Kenya’s Marsabit county, Mohamud Ali, said two Kenyans had been killed by stray bullets, 22 others injured and about 10,000 residents displaced by the fighting in Ethiopia. More than 50,000 Ethiopians have crossed the border to seek refuge in Kenya, according to the same official.
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