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Members of the army carry one of the coffins covered with the Ethiopian national flag as they arrive at the millennium hole in Addis Ababa, on June 25, 2019 for the National funeral service of Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian defence forces Seare Mekonnen and of Major-General Geza'e Abera, a retired former senior official in the Ethiopian army. - Ethiopian military and religious leaders condemned, on June 25, 2019, the assassinations of the army chief and other top officials at an emotional funeral service at which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wept openly throughout. Ethiopia's army chief, the president of Amhara state and three other top officials have been killed in two separate attacks on June 22, 2019. While the government has said the attacks took place within the context of an attempted coup in Amhara and are possibly linked, the overall motives remain murky. (Photo by Michael TEWELDE / AFP) (Photo credit should read MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP/Getty Images)

Talk about betrayal. Gen Seare Mekonnen was killed in his residence by his bodyguard. The attack is linked to a coup attempt in the country’s Amhara region.
The coup was unsuccessful and now is under control, but has taken many lives. Amhara’s state president Ambachew Mekonnen and his adviser were among the dead. Amhara’s attorney general was also shot, and died of his wounds on Monday, state media reported.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government facing growing pressure from regional strongmen, including in Amhara, a flashpoint in growing ethnic violence in Ethiopia, donned military fatigues to announce on state television late on Saturday that there had been an attempted coup in Amhara’s capital Bahir Dar earlier that day and that Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff General Seare Mekonnen was among the
casualties.

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