The Task Force told ENA that the apprehended persons involved in the May 28, 2007 grenade attack in Jijjiga city and the atrocious massacre of several Ethiopians and Chinese who were in their line of duty at a petroleum exploration site at Abule area in eastern Ethiopia.

These members of the self-styled ONLF were seized by security forces who received public backing in their relentless efforts of tracking down on the perpetrators of those appalling acts of terror, the task force said in a statement entitled: “Terrorists Cannot Remain Hidden from the Public and Security Forces”.

Accordingly: the task force said the suspects who go by the names of 1. Hassan Ahmed Ali, 2. Mohammed Sheikh Ibrahim, 3. Mohammed Yusuf Sheikh Mohammed, 4. Kedir Agan Dani, 5. Kewser Usman Ali, 6. Kedir Shurik Musse, 7. Areb Su’ani Dulbahante, and 8. Hukhtar Mohammed Abdulahi are now under custody as police launched further investigations of their cases.

It said, the forenamed suspects were also engaged in activities of plotting and committing murders in some towns in the Somali Regional State in Eastern Ethiopia.

These suspects of the terror acts had roles ranging from serving as accomplices to coordinating the atrocities committed against civilians, it said.

The task force commended the public for the cooperation they provided in the activities of the security forces tracking down on the terror suspects, who, it said, were engaged in subversive activities.

E: 6:12 pm

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