By Dawit Endeshaw and Giulia ParaviciniADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed in the Metakal zone of Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, regional government spokesman Melese Beyene told Reuters on Tuesday. The killings, which happened on Monday night, followed two attacks in the same zone last month when 45 people lost their lives, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government is faced with rising insecurity in many parts of the country. The killings started as revenge following the assassination of the brother of a local official, the spokesman said. "I saw a six-month-old girl who had been slaughtered at home and her little body thrown in a field," the survivor told Reuters by phone. "I participated in the funeral of 13 people who were killed."

Source: Ethiopian News October 13, 2020 13:24 UTC