There has been a deadly explosion in a bus on the disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Ethiopian [Woyanne] officials said at least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when the bus exploded in the Ethiopian-controlled town of Humera.
They said they believed an explosive device had been attached to the bus.
The blast happened just before the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the future of the UN force stationed in the disputed border zone.
The UN peacekeepers were sent eight years ago to monitor a border security zone, after the war which killed tens of thousands of people between Eritrea and Ethiopia in the late 1990s.
The explosion took place on a crowded bus just as it was leaving the bus station at Humera at the western end of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border.
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Associated Press
Ethiopia [Woyanne] blames Eritrea after explosion kills 8
Eight people have been killed in an explosion Thursday in northwestern Ethiopia, government officials said, and Ethiopia [Woyanne officials] said rival Eritrea was responsible.
Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu told The Associated Press dismissed Ethiopia’s accusation as: “total rubbish.”
Tigray State Vice President Abadi Zemo said a bomb attached to a bus exploded in Humera, about 370 miles northwest of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Humera is in Tigray State and borders Sudan.