This looks like the work of Woyanne. Opposition groups do not target civilians.
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(Reuters) — An explosion on a minibus shook central Addis Ababa today, killing three people and wounding nine, Ethiopian police said.
All the dead and wounded were on the bus, police said.
“Three people were killed and nine seriously injured by an explosion from a device planted by suspected terrorists inside a minibus taxi,” said Addis Ababa police spokesman Densash Hailu.
The blast on a road between the Hilton hotel and the foreign ministry was the latest in a string of explosions in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia has blamed on extremists backed by its neighbour and rival Eritrea.
Scores of policemen and soldiers rushed to the scene, cordoning off the area as fire engines arrived.
36 thoughts on “Explosion hits Ethiopian capital”
here is again woyanne starts killing people here and around.What will be the end ? this people(woyanne) ar really crazy…..Sorry for mother Ethiopia !
There is only one solution to the curse of these pests.
Rise up with Ak47. Learn from the Somalis.
I guess one can never be certain, but, it looks a sure bet this was planted by Weyane intelligense officers so that people could turn against the opposition groups and of course against Eritrea. No story would be savy enough if somehow Eritrea is not placed in that limelight!
Weyane qZetam. Quit messing around with the innocent. It won’t do you any good just like being a shameful servant of US imperialism!
Are the Woyanes going to blame Eritrea for this ??? Let us wait andf see !!!
This explosion is set up by TPLF gov.WE all know who’r TPLF.It’s a work of TPLF/Meles work.
here you go….
tplf kills you and at the end on its media outlets reports that Shabia or OLF or ONLF is killing the civilians. The tplf secret agents killed an innocent young man near Sheraton Addis and then reported that Teddy Afro killed a pedestrian and run away. That is the bankrupt and old fashioned tplf politics
God Bless the Oppressed!
Can y you have a little sympathy for the dad Ethiopian. Before blame somebody else.
You will see EPRDF blame Ginbot 7 party for this tragedy.
Sorry to hear that bad news!
ere weyane hezbe atecherse! If some opposition has a capacity to do that why he make on civilians as there are a lot of woyane army in Addis.
Destortions; lootings; extrajudicial killings;
unwarranted arrests of peacceful people; murders of all levels; deceptions that are global proportions; tortures of citizens from 90 years old to breast feeding infants with their mothers are the picture of regime led by Mr. Meles Zenawi of aduwii-thugire.
Exploding devices onto peaceful citizens are very common for Thugire-led regime of Aduwii-mekelle.
እነዚህ ሰዎች(እነ አቶ መለስ) እኮ መቅሰፍቶች ናቸው!
ኢትዮጵያን መቅጣት ብቻ ነው ዓላማቸው!
ግን ምን በደለቻቸው????????
First and foremost my sympathy to those innocent people who lost their lives and got injured in this blast. No Ethiopian opposition group practices terrorism, OLF, ONLF, EPPF, Debub Hizboch Liberation Group, Sidama Libration Front, EPPF or TPDM have ever participated in a cowardly bombing of a civilian bus, Woyanne has done this before in Addis and even sent their stooges to plant bombs in Tesseney and Barentu in Eritrea, luckily the culprits in the Tesseney and Barentu explosions got captured and cofesed that Woyanne sent them to do their dastardly deeds. In Addis the only power is Woyanne so they will blame any opposition group then blame Eritrea, this is their modus operandi, nothing new can be expected from such terrorist regime. In Eritrea’s struggle for independence that took 30 years no terrorist act was commited against innocent civilians, it is not in the culture of the GOE to participate in terrorist activities so whatever says or does will not make any difference. The Ethiopian people should rise up in unisom and destroy this parasite regime before they kill more innocent people in the process.
Woyanne idiotes uses the same tactic everytime when there is major controvertial issue about the country. I am so sorry for the victims but this theater was stagged by the mercenaries. Now the whole country particulary in Addis Abeba people are talking about the give away of Ethiopian teritories to Sudan by woyanne minorty. Now the government is perhaps in panic and trying to steal the attention of the people. We all know that what woyanne junta is doing in Somalia and they don’t hesitate to do such merceless act on there own people to extend there life in power and that is what they did. I think for woynne thugs it is over and they are counting there days to be history, bad history of the nation.
Do not forget how these primitives group came to Addiss Ababa. It was with targeted plan on tegrians blood and Dergians arrogant character. Do you then think that they have care for the rest of you than their ancestries.
It is the blind rule of nature that you will get the fruit of your cultivation.
Genieß es!
i don’t think this can be done by any opposition group. may be it is done by isolated groups just to destabilize the country or from some weyane opportunistic leaders just for political gain
“Three people died when a bomb exploded on a minibus, nine others sustained serious injuries in the incident,” federal police official Tesfaye Meressa told reporters on Tuesday.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the explosion.
All streets leading to the foreign ministry were sealed off by federal police, witnesses said.
The explosion comes just over a month after three people were killed and 18 wounded in bomb blasts at petrol stations in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian authorities blamed the April 14 attack on the Eritrean-backed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
Tensions between the neighboring countries stem from Ethiopia’s failure to hand over the disputed border town of Badme, which a UN-backed commission recognized as part of Eritrean territory.
SOURCE: Press TV
እስከዛሬ ወያኔ እራሱ ቦንብ እየደበቀ ሳይፈነዳ ደረስንበት ይሉን ነበር :: ምነው ታዲያ ይህኛው
ፈንድቶ ህዝብ ጨረሰ?::ወያኔ እራሱ ገድሎ ማን ገደለው እያለ ጆሮአችንን እያደነቆረን ነው::
ለማስመሰል የራሱን ህዝብ ደም ሜዳ ላይ የሚያፈስ መንግስት አንባገነኑ መለሰ ብቻ ነው::
ዳሩ ግን ግንቦት አይደል ደም ማፍሰስ አለባቸው ለ…….
nothing can be gained by killing inoccent civilian!Idiot Woyanne!
Funny! If Woyane’s toilet does not flush,it is still Eritrea’s fault.Come on,do not be redicules-make sense and fight your enemies inside and make no excuse-ke tigil indatizenagueritrea new iyalachihu-strengthen your security apparatus and wipe the domestic enemies.and save Eritrea.It is busy with its “Self reliance”motto which is apt these days unlike you guys looking “outside”as always.
Ya’ weyane this is the simplest way to kill the people of Addis Ababa rather than kiling by hunger, Please go ahead & do it again and again.
Yes Elias, the bombing has a fingerprint of the thuggish TPLF!
TPLF led Ethiopia is controlled by the most ruthless and murderous mafia group that has been using state terrorism against Ethiopians for the last 17 years. Their bloody history before usurping power in 1991 plainly tells us how they destroyed bridges, hospitals, schools and other civilian institutions to come to power. These are merciless thugs who are capable of employing any form of brute methods, even against their own people. Thus, the current bombing should be interpreted as a satanic deed of the TPLF terrorists unless proved otherwise.
I have to say the people of ETHIOPIA remind me of a physically abused wife who on a daily basis gets abused by her husband and feels like she cant do nothing but to take the beating and suffer in silence hoping 1 day he will channge his ways and the abuse will stop.
Well my Ethiopian brothers the abuse will NEVER stop aslong as you sit there and take it the time to STAND UP for yourself is now in live you have to make a decision to stand up and say enough is enough no more or you can stay silent and let him abuse you and torture you and eventually he will take you out of your misery and KILL YOU.
WHEN WILL THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA HAVE THE HEART TO STAND UP AND SAY NO MORE?
The Woyanne army is at its weakest and the time is NOW or NEVER.
Every time I hear or read such killing and destruction in Ethiopia and the whol region of the horn of Africa there are ONLY a few people to blame: Meles, Mesfin, Azeb, Bereket, and the rest of the tplfies; the Tigry people must stand together and say enough is enough or I’m afraid in the long run they are to be blame too. Their silence could mean anything, including as beneficiaries of such killing, looting, and destruction of Ethiopia and the whole region.
This is clearly weyane’s plot. we recall same tragedy was happening at addis ababa in the aftermath of the 2005 election which was aimed for political consumption. It is clear that THE WEYANE CAMP IS TROUBLED BY THE FORMATION OF GINBOT 7 AND THE SUPPORT IT OBTAINS FROM ETHIOPIANS BOTH IN DIASPORA AND ETHIOPIA
The blas bomb, was a plan of the bloody woyane action to blame others for nothing. This dirty criminal TPLF knows.Others are scapegoats.
But we really hope that the genuine Ethiopians shall start waging total war against the woyane bandas. The woyane bandas days are numbered that is why they are desparate and nervous.
Ethiopians Rise up you have been sleeping for seventheen years. It is time NOW. Get up.Use any available means and fight.
Ethiopia Prevails.
This a simple stupid stategy of TPLF set up that has killed the civilians. The TPLF mafeia govt has done this million times for the last 17 years, they have been accusing, olf, shabia, onlf and other major oppositions including kinijit to get the attention from inside and out side of ethiopia. The ethiopian people exactly knows that this bomb explosion is always orcastrated by tplf if it is targeted on civilians. However, if the bomb targeted the tplf officials, we would’ve beleive it might came from opposions. otherwise it is a poor tplf drama to attract westerns especially america as tplf is an ally against on the couter terrerism war and a typical method to get miletary and finacial support from america so that tplf can stay in power for a while. But the fact that tplf has to know that we are tired of thier game. Time for unity for us and fight the tplf regime once and for ever with our undivided attention.
I agree with the “Somali freedom fighter”. One thing that needs to be mentioned however is that EPRDF is staging these” terrorist attacks” from time to time in order to keep “its ally in the war against terror” the USA in line and keep on getting the millions of dollars and stash away in their numerous foreign accounts
ወያኔ ለሱዳን ስለሸጠው መሬትና በውሸት ምርጫ ስለተጎናጸፈው ድል የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ከምን ጊዜም በላይ ማማረሩንና በግልጽ መወያየት መጀመሩን በደንብ ስለተረዳ የህዝቡን አቴንሽን ለማስቀየር እንደልማዱ ሽብር መፍጠር መጀመሩን የማይረዳ ሊኖር አይችልም:: የሱማሌን ጦርነት ለመጀመር በሚዘጋጅበት ወቅት እንደዚሁ የህዝቡን ለመበታተን ቤስላሞች ስም የጂማ አከባቢ ክርስቲያኖችን አርዶና በቭኢዲዮ ቀርጾ ዘግናኙን ትርዕት ሲያሳየን መሰንበቱ የቅርብ ጊዜ ትዝታችን ነው:: የወያኔ መልዕክቱ ወገንህ በአሸባሪዎች ቦንብ እየጋየብህ …ሱዳን ስለወሰደው መሬት ወይም እኛ ስለጨበጥነው ስልጣን ልትቆረቆር አይገባህምና አርፈህ ተቀመጥ የሚል መሆኑ ግልትስ ነው::
Forget the so called terrorists; Weyane points its finger at. The only terror comes from the regime itself. They do such acts to point to the world they are fighters of terror at the expense of our people.
Please go back and check the hijacking of flight 916, the killing of Ethiopian air force pilots, Bankers and civil leaders in broad day light.
Weyane means cruel and evil, never in our history we had such a government; that gives land away to the Sudan, Eritrea and divide our united country along ethnic line to benefit from the confusion. Remember, they fought to liberate Eritrea!
We now hear Ato Meles stating he wants to stay in Somalia till the Jihadist is defeated. In reality, he is fighting a war that should of been left for the natives to sort out their own entanglement. This unwise decision will become his undoing in the long run. Wait and see!
How come a government could make unstability to its own security? Elias is always blaming the government.
ወያኔ ለሱዳን ስለሸጠው መሬትና በውሸት ምርጫ ስለተጎናጸፈው ድል የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ከምን ጊዜም በላይ ማማረሩንና በግልጽ መወያየት መጀመሩን በደንብ ስለተረዳ የህዝቡን አቴንሽን ለማስቀየር እንደልማዱ ሽብር መፍጠር መጀመሩን የማይረዳ ሊኖር አይችልም:: የሱማሌን ጦርነት ለመጀመር በሚዘጋጅበት ወቅት እንደዚሁ የህዝቡን atention ለመበታተን ቤስላሞች ስም የጂማ አከባቢ ክርስቲያኖችን አርዶና በቭኢዲዮ ቀርጾ ዘግናኙን ትርዕት ሲያሳየን መሰንበቱ የቅርብ ጊዜ ትዝታችን ነው:: የወያኔ መልዕክቱ ወገንህ በአሸባሪዎች ቦንብ እየጋየብህ …ሱዳን ስለወሰደው መሬት ወይም እኛ ስለጨበጥነው ስልጣን ልትቆረቆር አይገባህምና አርፈህ ተቀመጥ የሚል መሆኑ ግልትስ ነው::
It is the work of meles/TPLF regime, and no other opposition group target civilians.
let us put more fire on meles and his government to librate our dear country ethiopia from this 16th century junta consisting of a bunch of blood thirsty schizophrenic men.
Remember Hawzen!
Whenever you hear about such an act of terrorism on innocent civilian, think about Hawzen.
People are laughing at the election process, which was a poorly performed drama. To stop this laugh and divert the attention, they can do anything. They have done it before, they will do it again.
This is another Woyanie plot to divert from the real issues at hand gripping Ethiopia: the starvation of 10 million Ethiopians, the futile war in Somalia, the fake election, the hand over of fertile Gonder and Gojam land to the Islamists in Sudan, the fake gold plated steel …
Woyane’s and problems have no end!
Dear Tulu,
You are absolutily right!!We all Ethiopians clearly understand woyane’s evil actions. But knowing itself is not only the solution!!!! Action! action!!!! action!!!!action!!!
Thanks
Tulu says:
This is another Woyanie plot to divert from the real issues at hand gripping Ethiopia: the starvation of 10 million Ethiopians, the futile war in Somalia, the fake election, the hand over of fertile Gonder and Gojam land to the Islamists in Sudan, the fake gold plated steel …
Woyane’s and problems have no end!
May 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
yo dam ass…Alex. why would woyane do such a thing while they are controlling the country. am not woyane supporter..but the right comment on the right issue avoid delusion. we fight weyane with facts..not tirki mirki wore.