American citizen killed in Addis Ababa bomb blast

WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States says an American citizen was killed in a minibus explosion Tuesday in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says officials are investigating and working to notify the family. He provided no other details Wednesday.

There were few other details about the blast, but a spokesman for the Ethiopian foreign affairs ministry said he had heard reports of fatalities.