Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, additionally saying the victims were all Oromos and describing the attackers as members of a volunteer militia known as Fano, mostly composed of ethnic Amharas.
Both residents said the attackers, carrying rifles and numbering between 150 and 200 men, were speaking Amharic and wore a mish-mash of uniforms.
Clashes between the Oromo and Amhara, Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, have been rising in recent months.
Oromiya has experienced years of violence amid accusations of neglect by the federal government in Addis Ababa, and neither Amhara nor Oromiya's regional administrations' spokesmen responded to requests for comment.
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