ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: An explosion outside a hotel in Ethiopia’s volatile eastern region killed four people Sunday and injured 20 others, a federal police spokesman said.
The explosion occurred at 10:20 a.m. (0720GMT) outside a hotel in the eastern Ethiopia town of Jijiga, some 430 miles (700 kilometers) east of the capital, Addis Ababa, said spokesman Demsash Hailu.
The explosion occurred at 10:20 a.m. (0720GMT) outside a hotel in the eastern Ethiopia town of Jijiga, some 430 miles (700 kilometers) east of the capital, Addis Ababa, said spokesman Demsash Hailu.
“It is a criminal act. It’s not an accident. It was a terrorist action,” he said.
The explosion killed or injured people in front of the hotel and on the street but did not damage the hotel itself, he said, declining to say what caused the explosion or who may have caused it.
Jijiga is the capital of Ethiopia’s Somali region, where separatist rebels have been fighting for autonomy for decades.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front has been fighting for the independence of a large part of Ethiopia’s southeastern region, officially called the Somali region but also known as the Ogaden.
The conflict intensified in May 2007 when the government launched an offensive against the rebels after a rebel attack on a Chinese-run oil exploration field that killed
74 workers.
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