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Ethiopia deny claims by rebel group that their troops shot foreign tourists
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A high-ranking Ethiopian government official
says a rebel group’s claim that Ethiopian troops killed five European
tourists during a gun battle is “pure fiction”.
Ethiopia’s
foreign affairs spokesman Dina Mufti said Monday that the statement was
completely untrue. Ethiopia has blamed its archenemy Eritrea for the
incident.
An unverified Jan. 21 statement claiming to be from an
obscure rebel group in Ethiopia’s arid northern Afar region claimed
gunmen clashed with Ethiopian soldiers. The Afar Revolutionary
Democratic Unity Front says the five foreigners were killed in the
battle.
The claim comes after gunmen last week attacked a group
of European tourists in the country’s Afar region, bordering the tiny
nation of Eritrea. Five were killed, two wounded and two kidnapped.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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That's a possibility, instead of jumping to accuse Eritrea for such horrific crime Ethio. Gov. Should do some researches on those rebel groups, they're capable of doing such things too to be able rub those tourists.