Rebels from Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray opened fire on civilians while looting and shelling villages and towns in the neighbouring Amhara region earlier this month, killing and wounding dozens of people and possibly many more, witnesses told AFP on Wednesday. Witnesses said the violence erupted on September 9 in the village of Gedemeyu, seven kilometres (four miles) south of Kobo, after TPLF fighters began searching homes for firearms and other weapons. “They massacred farmers… and seasonal agricultural workers who came to the area from neighbouring highlands,” one witness from Kobo town told AFP. Four of them were from the same family,” he said, adding he had passed “many” other bodies while walking south to Dessie. We will make public the exact number of people massacred once we investigate the crime,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2021 13:18 UTC