allAfrica, 7 August 2017

Bahir Dar city police say dozens of people are being held after a bomb exploded there yesterday, according to Addis Standard. No casualties were reported.

              

Photo: David Njagi/AllAfrica      

Photo: David Njagi/AllAfrica                       

The city’s police chief, Commander Walelegn Dagnew, blamed both the explosion, and the subsequent closing of businesses, on “anti-peace elements”.

Other sources say business and transport facilities are staging a stayaway today, and had done the same yesterday, to commemorate 2016’s Amhara and Oromia protests which saw several people killed.