{"id":358343,"date":"2021-05-25T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=358343"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:25:14","slug":"more-than-a-thousand-people-have-left-guraferda-district-in-bench-sheko-zone-fleeing-targeted-attacks-by-armed-men-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/358343","title":{"rendered":"More than a thousand people have left Guraferda District in Bench Sheko Zone, fleeing targeted attacks by armed men &#8211; official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a thousand people have left Guraferda District in Bench Sheko Zone in Ethiopia\u2019s SNNPR Regional State, fleeing targeted attacks by armed men.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFikre Aman, the Zone\u2019s Chief Administrator, told local media that the armed men have continued killing civilians and burning houses.<\/p>\n<p>The administrator said nothing about causalities and if the targeted attack was ethnically motivated.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe armed men have become very terrible, becoming beyond the strength of security forces in the area.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is not known which armed group was committing the attack in the zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a thousand people have left Guraferda District in Bench Sheko Zone in Ethiopia\u2019s SNNPR Regional State, fleeing targeted attacks by armed men. \u00a0 Fikre Aman, the Zone\u2019s Chief Administrator, told local media that the armed men have continued killing civilians and burning houses. The administrator said nothing about causalities and if the targeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":358344,"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-358343","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\/Bench-Sheko.jpg?fit=735%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1vdJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358343","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=358343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358345,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358343\/revisions\/358345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}