location: Gursum
notes: Gursum- At least 20 members of the Somali special forces unit (Liyu Police paramilitaries) were killed in Gursum and Bombase in south eastern Ethiopia. The attack was reportedly carried out in retaliation by armed residents in the Oromo region of southern Ethiopia where the Liyu Police forces had reportedly carried out various human rights violations. Following the attack several people were reportedly arrested. According to an Oromo rights activist, the fighting took place in a town called Goree (in Gursum district), and that several were killed, after which the bodies of the dead and wounded were taken by Liyu Police to an unknown location.
target_text: location: Gursum, fatalities: 3