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Deadly blasts hit southern Ethoipia
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By Agencies
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 At least three people have been killed after bombs exploded in two hotels in a town in southern Ethiopia.
The blasts also injured five other people in Negele Borena, a small town 595km south of the capital, in the Oromo region, police and government officials said on Wednesday.
Tamrat Abera, police chief for the town of Negele Borena, said: "Two bombs blew up in two hotels last night. The second blast occurred just three minutes after the first.
"Some had their legs blown off. There was also serious damage to private and public property.
"We are undertaking a massive manhunt as we have been given details of what the bomber looked like."
Tamrat added that the first bomb detonated in a hotel named Kidane Mihret and the second in Shuferoch hotel, a few yards away. Zemedkum Tekle, an information ministry spokesman, said that "terrorists" were responsible for the bombings, without giving further details.
Conflict
For years there has been conflict in Ethiopia's Oromo region, where opponents to the government claim they have been marginalised.
On May 20, a bomb exploded on a minibus in Addis Ababa, killing six people.
Police blamed that attack on the Oromo Liberation Front who they said were financed by neighbouring Eritrea.
Eritrea denies any involvement.
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