Residents of Bishoftu took to the street denouncing Thursday’s grenade attack

ESAT News (April 2, 2016)

Residents of Debre Zeit (Bishoftu) town held a demonstration on Friday denouncing a grenade attack on Thursday that killed a 3 year old and injured parents.

The residents demand the perpetrators be brought to justice.

An unidentified individual on Thursday threw the bomb at the Awash Hotel and the explosion killed a three year old child.

Residents say there was unusual security presence in the town.

On Wednesday, there was a report of shooting at Lebena Dengel School, although no casualties were reported.

No party claimed responsibility for the explosion and the school shooting.

In the last few months alone, there have been a number of explosions at colleges in the Oromia region and at the Grand Anwar Mosque in Addis Ababa. The governments has been mum about these incidents.

The Ethiopian government has a record of employing dirty tricks of throwing grenades at public gatherings and blame opposition political groups and neighboring Eritrea, in a futile scheme to get them labeled terrorists, according to the US diplomatic cables as reported in the WikiLeaks files