Residents and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) conflict monitor told AFP that at least 43 people were killed and 18 wounded when an unidentified armed group attacked villages in the Shirka district of Oromia, around 270 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, in a text republished by Punch.

The attack on Orthodox Christian churches and homes in Ethiopia’s central state of Oromia happened on Saturday and killed more than 40 people, residents and the ACLED conflict monitor told AFP, in a text republished by CP24.