Hand grenade attack kills two at Ethiopian university - police
A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks.
An attacker or attackers hurled the grenade at students on the campus at Dilla University in the diverse Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) on Thursday evening, officers added.
They did not give any details on any reasons for the attack in an area, about 350 km (200 miles) south of the capital Addis Ababa, where there have not been any recent reports of significant unrest.
"The blast killed two students and wounded six, of which four were seriously injured," a police official in the town, Ejigu Shiferaw, told the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.
The outlet said an unspecified number of suspects were in police custody, without giving further details.
