Dozens of bus passengers in Ethiopia have been abducted by armed men in the country’s largest region, Oromia, as they were travelling from the capital, Addis Ababa.
Details are only just emerging of the kidnappings which took place earlier this week.
The incident happened in Ali Doro, which is near an area where around 100 university students were similarly abducted as they were heading home from their campus last July.
Survivors and local authorities blamed those abductions on the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel group that operates in the area. The group denied involvement at the time.