Addis Standard: The body of the Ethiopian singer Houndsa was transferred to a military barracks after his burial in the capital was forbidden.

Bloody protests continued in Ethiopia over the killing of Oromo singer and poet Hashalu Hundisa, with more than 80 people dead.

The Addis Standard website quoted the Oromiya Police Chief Ararsa Mirdasa as saying that Hondisa's uncle, whom he did not name, was among the dead on Wednesday in the Ambo region, referring to the cause of his death to a bomb that he said people had bombed his house.

But the newspaper's website quoted eyewitnesses as saying that it was the security forces who killed the uncle after he refused to hand over the body of his nephew and insisted that she remain in the family home for burial procedures.

These witnesses added that Hondesa's body was later transferred to a military barracks on the outskirts of the city of Ambu, where regional authorities said Hondisa would be assigned to him a "funeral hero" ceremony on Thursday.

But the youth in the city continued to protest, demanding that Hundisa be buried in the capital, Addis Ababa, where he lived with his wife and three children.

The website says that none of the family of the murdered artist made no statements about the incident, indicating that there was news of his father's recent intention to broadcast Voice of America in the Armenian language.