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A report has claimed that at least 750 people were shot dead after they were pulled out the popular church in Aksum in Tigray region of Ethiopia.
According to a dispatch by Belgium-based NGO European External Programme with Africa (EEPA), the incident was reported by those who fled the town and escaped to the regional capital of Mekelle on foot.
Scores of civilians have died in the violence between Ethiopian troops and the local militants
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The report added that the area still remains inaccessible to journalists. The Church Times report citing former BBC World Service Africa editor, Martin Plaut said that the attacks were carried out by Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia after they dragged out those hiding in the church of Mary of Zion.
Ark of the Covenant for the Tabernacle replica at BYU in this photo from October 16, 2017. | (Wikimedia Commons)
Around 750 people were killed in an attack on an Orthodox church, which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in northern Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region home to thousands of churches and monasteries according to reports.
Hundreds of people hiding in Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum amid an armed conflict were brought out and shot to death, and local residents believe the aim was to take the Ark of Covenant to Addis Ababa, the Belgium-based nonprofit European External Programme with Africa reported in this month’s situational report, released on Jan. 9.