'Few people' dead in Ethiopia blast at PM rally

23/6/2018 16:17

        Ethiopia's reformist new prime minister says "a few people have lost their lives" and others have been injured in the explosion that went off shortly after he spoke to a huge rally of supporters in the capital, Addis Ababa.
        
        Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is addressing the nation as police investigate the blast that occurred just after he finished speaking and was waving to the crowd of tens of thousands.
        
        An Associated Press reporter has seen more than a dozen injured people.
        
        Ethiopians heartened by a wave of reforms under Abiy had packed Meskel Square in a show of support with numbers unseen in recent years in the East African nation.
        
        The rally has now broken up with people singing, chanting and going back to their homes.