 ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian police have arrested five suspects thought to be behind a blast in the countryÂ’s volatile Ogaden region that killed 11 people and wounded the local president, state media reported on Tuesday. Five people were killed by at least one explosion and six others, mostly children, were crushed to death in a stampede after MondayÂ’s attack tore through crowds celebrating a national holiday in the eastern regionÂ’s capital Jijiga, witnesses said.
The government blamed the strike on the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), separatist rebels who last month raided a Chinese-run oil exploration field in the area, also known as the Somali region, killing 74. ‘The Somali State Police Commission ... has apprehended five alleged Eritrean regime-sponsored terrorists that threw (a) hand grenade on the residents of Jijiga,’ the official Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) said.
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The ONLF has denied involvement in MondayÂ’s attack, saying the movement does not target civilians, only Ethiopian troops.
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