2008 Negele Boran bombings

Terrorist attack in Oromia Region, Ethiopia 2008 Ethiopia Ngelle Borena bombing Oromia in Ethiopia.svg Negele Boran, Ethiopia 28 May 2008 UTC+3 Bombing 3 5 Somali militants (suspected) The 2008 Ethiopia Negele Boran bombings were two bombings on the night of 28 May 2008 at two hotels in the town of Negele Boran in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia which killed 3 and injured 5. The two bombs were detonated 3 minutes apart: the first exploded in the Kidane Mihret Hotel and the second in the Shuferoch hotel, just a few yards away. This attack occurred on the 17th anniversary of Meles Zenawis overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariams former military government, the Derg. Although the Ethiopian government has not officially confirmed the perpetrators, a Mogadishu-based Somali radio station, Radio Shebelle, broadcast a statement by the leader of a Somali militant group, which said the explosions were aimed at "the Ethiopians, the enemy of Islam". Ethiopia bomb on Derg anniversary https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7424390.stm BBC News 2008-05-28 2008-05-28 References External links Yahoo news Category:Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2008 Category:2008 building bombings Category:May 2008 in Ethiopia Category:21st-century mass murders in Ethiopia Category:History of Oromia Category:Building bombings in Ethiopia Category:Hotel bombings in Africa Category:2008 murders in Ethiopia Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2008 Category:Terrorist incidents in Ethiopia in the 2000s Category:Attacks on hotels in Ethiopia