Armed assailants kill two soldiers in northern Ethiopia

ESAT News (October 21, 2016)

Two Agazi soldiers were killed on Thursday following an attack by unidentified armed group on a makeshift military camp in Tis Abay, Bahir Dar.

Sources who spoke to ESAT on the phone said additional troops have been sent to to the area following the attack by a self organized armed group against the Agazi soldiers, special forces of the regime, deployed to the Amhara region to quell the protest in the Amhara region.

The sources said about 30 soldiers were at the camp at the time of the attack on Thursday night. One of the assailants was injured in the shootout, it was leant.

Authorities have reportedly sent reinforcement to Tis Abay following the hour long shootout.

The state of emergency declared a week ago prohibits possession of firearms.

There have been several reports of armed groups carrying out surprise attacks against regime forces in the last several months in the Amhara region where deadly protests flared up again this summer against a tyrannical rule by minority Tigrayans.