Five civilians including former security head\u00a0of West Wellega Zone,\u00a0Waqgari Kejela were\u00a0killed\u00a0in a shelling by rebel force in western Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
The civilians were killed in an ambush over the weekend while going by a car to Mendi district, Elias Umeta , Administrator of the West Wellega Zone has said. <\/p>\n
According to the administrator, Waqgari and the other four people were killed by the rebel force which calls itself Oromo Liberation Army.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latest killing came after a journalist who used to work for state run media was killed two weeks ago by an assassin group called \u201cAba Torbe\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Five civilians including former security head\u00a0of West Wellega Zone,\u00a0Waqgari Kejela were\u00a0killed\u00a0in a shelling by rebel force in western Ethiopia. The civilians were killed in an ambush over the weekend while going by a car to Mendi district, Elias Umeta , Administrator of the West Wellega Zone has said. According to the administrator, Waqgari and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":358017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OLF-11.jpg?fit=764%2C545&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1v8s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358036,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358016\/revisions\/358036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}