Bomb attack in southern Ethiopia causes several casualties

ADDIS ABABA, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopia command post that was established to enforce the recently decreed six-month martial law announced on Thursday that a bomb attack in Moyale city near Ethiopia's southern border with Kenya left several casualties.

The command post didn't give details on the dead and wounded in the bomb blast which occurred on Tuesday, but it blamed "anti-peace" forces for the attack.

Moyale city is contested by Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regional states and has for the past several years witnessed communal violence involving ethnic Oromos and Somalis.

Ethiopia is reeling from persistent deadly protests since 2016 especially in the two most populous regional states of Amhara and Oromia over alleged political and economic marginalization. Enditem