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Honorable President Kikwete,
The Amhara Fano National Movement has the honor of extending its sincere congratulations on your recent appointment by the African Union Commission.
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𝐀 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐣𝐣𝐚𝐦 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝐀𝐦𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐜
“On Thursday, April 17, 2025 a drone attack on a school killed more than 100 people in East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region say residents and eyewitnesses who spoke to BBC.
In a small rural town called Gedeb in Enarj Enawga Woreda of the zone, civilians who came for development work to build a fence and buildings for a school were reportedly killed.
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Residents told BBC the attack struck people who were “gathered” in Gedeb Primary School to build a fence.
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Another eyewitness said many community members had gathered “some were cutting eucalyptus, others were striking nails, others were cutting rafter, and there were others carrying” and that the number of people killed “was great in number.”
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One eyewitness who said they used a bajaj to transport more than 70 bodies to the church said there were over 120 killed victims and among the victims were children and elderly persons.
“Between 115 and 120 bodies were buried. I believe there are others who were not identified. This is because we were in a state of shock.”
Another eyewitness on their end said they observed up to the retrieval of the first 57 bodies and they predicted that the number killed was beyond 100.
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When the attack was carried out Fano militants were not present in the town and there was no active fighting in the area.
The militants “are not present in town unless they come for specific work reasons” said one resident.
One eyewitness who said they were a merchant said the victims were civilians and that he knew “many of them through his business.”
“If they had been Fano members we would have found armed persons when the bodies were retrieved. We know the difference between Fano and members of the public. The Fano also operate together in groups”, said another resident.
Another resident, “we are unsure of whether the people who were building fences and homes were labeled as Fano militants during drone surveillance…it could be that the people were labeled as Fano members when they were gathered, this is what we understood” they said offering their guess for why the attack may have been carried out.”