Eyewitnesses in Ethiopia testified that more than 200 people, most of whom belonged to the Amhara ethnic group, were killed in an attack in the Oromiya region. In this regard, Abd al-Sayed Taher, a resident of the Gimbe district who narrowly escaped the attack on Saturday, said: “I counted 230 bodies … Unfortunately, this is the deadliest attack on civilians that we have seen in our lives. We bury them in mass graves, and that We still count the bodies. Federal Army units have now arrived, but we fear that if they leave, the attacks will continue.”

Another witness, Shamble, said the Amhara community is now desperate to move “before another wave of massacres occurs.” Two witnesses blamed the attacks on the Oromo Liberation Front Army.

The Oromo Regional Government also blamed the Oromo Liberation Front army for this. Oda Tarbe, a spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Army, denied the allegations. The attack is one of the most brutal attacks recorded in modern memory as ethnic tensions persist in Africa’s second most populous country.