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German hostages in 'good health': Ethiopia rebels
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian rebels said German tourists they seized last week were safe and blamed the government for the incident in which five Europeans were also killed on the slopes of a famed volcano.
Addis Ababa had blamed the region's worst attack on tourists in years on gunmen armed by arch-foe Eritrea but a rebel group claiming to fight for the Afar region and its people said the bloodshed occurred when government soldiers attacked one of its patrols.
The rebel Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) also said its fighters had killed 16 Ethiopian troops, and wounded or captured others, in a statement received Monday.
"Those German nationals who were taken together with the Ethiopian soldiers are safe and (in) good health," ARDUF said.
The German foreign ministry has said two of its nationals are missing after gunmen attacked a group of tourists in Ethiopia's remote Afar region last week, but the rebels did not specify how many people it was holding.
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