Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-21 01:42:56|Editor: Mu XuequanVideo Player CloseADDIS ABABA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Police arrested 17 Ethiopians, including some former soldiers, over suspected involvement in a series of deadly bomb blasts in Bahir Dar, the capital city of Amhara state in northern Ethiopia, authorities said on Sunday. Some of the arrested individuals were former Ethiopian defense force members with deep knowhow on how to commit grenade attacks, Dagnew said. In August 2016, protestors from the Amhara ethnic group took to the streets in Bahir Dar to vent their anger at perceived political and economic disfranchisement. Amhara is Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group, accounting for 28 percent of the country's population of 100 million. There has since been a series of bomb attacks that authorities blamed on "terrorists," in addition to several episodes of labor strikes that hit business hard in the normally busy streets of Bahir Dar.

Source: Ethiopian News August 20, 2017 17:37 UTC