Ethiopia accuses gunmen from South Sudan of killing 28, kidnapping 43 kids

An Ethiopian government official has informed that gunmen from South Sudan killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 others during an attack which occurred in the Gambella’s Gog and Jor areas of the country.

According to Chol Chany, a regional government spokesman, the gunmen struck at the scene of the incident which shares a border with South Sudan’s Boma region.

“Murle bandits carried out the attack. They fled along with 43 children,” Chany said, using a term for a local ethnic group. “The (Ethiopian military) is pursuing them. The assailants haven’t crossed over to South Sudan yet.”

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The declaration is coming after Ethiopia declared three days of national mourning for victims of a landslide at a rubbish landfill site in the capital Addis Ababa.

Flags flew at half- mast on Wednesday as the government announced that the death toll from the disaster that occurred at the 50-year-old Reppi dump on Saturday evening had risen to at least 72 people.

On Tuesday, at least 17 bodies were pulled out from the site and buried at the nearby Abune Aregawi Church, attended by hundreds of grief-stricken family members.

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