Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed's office said yesterday that the army chief of staff and the head of northern Amhara state were killed in two attacks when a general attempted a coup attempt to seize power in the state.
According to a statement from the office of Abe, the head of state Ampacho Mukonin and his adviser were shot dead, and the prosecutor was injured in Amhara city Bahr Dar state capital on Saturday evening.
In a separate attack, linked to the attack, Ethiopian Army Chief of Staff General Seri Mukonin and another retired general were shot dead by Siri's bodyguard at the headquarters of the chief of staff in Addis Ababa.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister said: "The death squad led by the security chief in the state of Amhara General Asamniu Tseiji, stormed a meeting on Saturday afternoon, hit the head of the state Ambasho two fatal injury, and wounded another senior official, and shortly after the killing of Chief of Staff General Siri two components of Before his bodyguard, in a process described by the spokeswoman as a coordinated attack ».
My father's office pointed out that General Asamniu was responsible for the failed coup, but gave no details of his whereabouts.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed, that the forces fully control the state of Amhara after the attempted coup.
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, said Saturday evening, in a televised speech dressed in military uniform, that the Chief of Staff of the army was wounded by gunfire, but later died.
An official in the capital, Addis Ababa, told Reuters the shooting took place as federal officials met with the president, a close ally of Abe, to discuss ways to address Assamnio's recruitment of ethnic militias in public.
Residents in Bahr Dar said the shooting lasted for at least four hours on Saturday evening, and some roads were closed.
"Most of the people who attempted the coup were arrested, but a few are still at large," Brigadier General Tvira Mamo, commander of the Special Forces in Amhara, told state television.