Ethiopia s army kills 42 in response to brutal massacre, officials say
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The Ethiopian National Defence on parade in Addis Ababa in September
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The Ethiopian army has killed 42 people it claims were responsible for massacring more than 100 civilians this week in the west of the country, officials said on Thursday.
Eyewitnesses and officials said that at least 102 people were killed in a horrific ethnically fuelled pre-dawn massacre in the Metekel zone in the Benishangul-Gumuz early on Wednesday.
The attackers reportedly set fields and homes ablaze, burning people alive as they slept.
News of the massacre comes at a turbulent and dangerous moment in Africa’s second-most populous nation.
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