Ethiopia blast toll climbs
2008-04-15 18:48
Addis Ababa - The death toll from blasts that rocked the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa climbed to three after another person succumbed to his injuries, police said on Tuesday.
The blasts occurred late on Monday in two petrol pumps in the city's south, wounding 18 people.
"Two people were killed immediately from the two bomb explosions, another one died when he went to hospital," police spokesperson Demsash Hailu told AFP over telephone.
Authorities blamed the separatist Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which alongside the Ogaden National Liberation Front and Ethiopia's arch-foe Eritrea, are routinely blamed for such attacks.
"The investigation is going on. (But) the OLF is the main suspect, (these are) exactly the type of attacks it has led in the past against the Ethiopian government," said government spokesperson Berekat Simon.
- AFP