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Hundreds of worshippers reportedly armed with cobbles and sticks rushed to protect the sacred Ark of the Covenant as brutal fighting in Ethiopia neared the church where it is said to be secured.
As skirmishes broke out between soldiers and rebel fighters in the holy city of Axum, in the Tigray region, worshippers rushed to defend the Church of St Mary of Zion.
A local university lecturer claimed to The Times that some people were killed after running to support priests and others protecting the ark at the church.
The ark is described in the Bible as an ornate wooden casket which houses stone tablets etched with the Ten Commandments. It is said to have been in the Axum church since the 1960s.
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Ethiopian soldiers walk among the bodies of dozens of recently-killed Tigrayan villagers in Debre Abay monastery. The full footage is too graphic to publish.
Credit: The Telegraph / screengrab
The ground of the Tigrayan village is soaked with blood and dozens of bodies lie strewn in the grass.
Groans can be heard from a seriously wounded man squirming on the floor between two corpses.