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The deceased worked in nutrition for a non-governmental organization. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, an emergency aid agency, said in a statement that after the kidnapping, the relevant persons were asked for ransom and then killed by unidentified armed criminal groups.
Eight aid workers have been killed in Ethiopia so far this year, six of them in Amhara, according to the United Nations.
There have also been at least 14 cases of kidnapping for ransom. Last month, a school bus carrying more than 100 passengers was seized in Oromia province for ransom. Most of the schoolchildren on board remain captive.
Various armed militias in Amhara use kidnapping as a means of pressure to extort ransom or to press for political demands. The Ethiopian government has said it will take action against the increasingly common practice, but central authorities have limited control over the region.
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