Bahir Dar city police say dozens of people are being held after a bomb exploded there yesterday, according to . No casualties were reported.
The city’s police chief, Commander Walelegn Dagnew, blamed both the explosion, and the subsequent closing of businesses, on “anti-peace elements”.
Other sources say business and transport facilities are staging a stayaway today, and had done the same yesterday, to commemorate 2016’s Amhara and Oromia protests which saw several people killed.