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Toronto – The whereabouts of those kidnapped from the latest bus attack near Gohatshion in the Amhara region of Ethiopia is still unknown.
Passengers from two passenger buses known locally as Tata were abducted on Thursday around 10:30 a.m. about six kilometers from Gohatsion town. This is the second kidnapping of passengers in less than a week.
As reported yesterday, 12 passengers were killed while in the bus when the gunmen shot. More details emerged on Friday.
According to an Ethiopian Media Service (EMS) report, two of the victims were women.
Several others were wounded ; seven of them are reportedly in hospital in Fiche town.
Two of the victims killed in the attack are women. There was also a four year old boy, according to an EMS report which cited residents from the area.
The source shared some of the names of the victims from the latest attack :
1) Temesgen Ayene
2) Emamaye Shiferaw
3) Abera Dagne
4) Embiale Yenealem
Names of women victims unspecified at the time of this writing.
The conditions or locations of more that 40 passengers unaccounted for.
The government has not released information about the incident.
There is a tendency to link the recurring attacks and kidnappings to gunmen whom the government allegedly organized in the name of radical ethnic Oromo nationalists.
However, there were many reports over the past five years or so when the militant Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) was linked to massacres, kidnappings and even passenger bus attacks.
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