800 Ethiopians Reportedly Killed After Defending ‘Ark Of The Covenant'

At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia.

Ethiopian Christians claim the Ark — the wooden chest built to hold the Ten Commandments of Moses — is being kept safe in a chapel in the holy northern city of Axum in the Tigray region.

The warfare between Ethiopian squaddies and insurrection combatants befell inside the fall, The Sunday Times reported, but it is handiest being reported now.

“When human beings heard the shooting they ran to the church to offer assist to the priests and others who were there protecting the ark,” Getu Mak, a neighborhood university lecturer, advised The Times.

“Certainly some of them have been killed for doing that.”

Little was regarded approximately the deadly siege for the reason that Tigray is cut off from the arena and newshounds had been blocked from coming into the region.

A deacon dwelling in Axum instructed the Associated Press he helped rely the bodies, collected victims’ identity cards and assisted with burials in mass graves.

The warfare between Ethiopian soldiers and rebellion combatants ended in at least 800 deaths.
The battle among Ethiopian infantrymen and insurrection fighters ended in at the least 800 deaths.
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He believes that an anticipated 800 people had been killed at the church and around the metropolis.

“If you attack Axum, you assault initially the identification of Orthodox Tigrayans but also of all Ethiopian Orthodox Christians,” Wolbert Smidt, an ethnohistorian who specializes within the place, told the AP.