INTOXICATED POLICE-OFFICER KILLS TWO COLLEAGUES
Joseph Omoniyi
A drunk police officer has killed two colleagues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday.
State-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation report said,the policeman, who fired on his colleagues was also shot dead.
Federal Police Commissioner Zeynu Jemal who confirmed the report said, the attacker was intoxicated with alcohol at the time.
Zaynu made no mention of any possible ethnic motivation behind the shooting, which comes after an escalation of ethnically-charged violence in Ethiopia.
According to the media report, roads in the central district of Bole where the shootout occurred were blocked off, however, by 06:30 GMT, calm appeared to have returned to the area.
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