Ethiopia Attack: Gunmen kill 32, burn houses

Gunmen have killed 32 people and razed more than 20 houses in a raid on an area of western Ethiopia.

A regional administrator Elias Umeta says, the killings were carried out on Sunday by an armed group called Olf Shane in the western Wollega zone.

Umeta   announced that 32 corpses were   buried and   about 700 to 750 people were also displaced from the area.

Olf Shane split from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an opposition party that spent years in exile but was allowed to return to Ethiopia after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018.

Sporadic violence has rocked Ethiopia since then.

Olf Shane says it is fighting for the right of the Oromos, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.

The regional authorities say there was no immediate known motive for the killings.