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(24 Apr 2007)
1. Various, sign for Chinese Embassy in Addis Ababa
2. Various, entrance to Chinese Embassy in Addis Ababa
STORYLINE:
Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oil field at dawn in eastern Ethiopia on Tuesday, killing 74 workers and destroying the facility, the guerrilla group and government officials said.
The attack took place early on Tuesday morning in Abole, a small town 120 kilometres (75 miles) away from Ethiopia's Somali Regional State capital Jijiga, close to the Somali border.
Several Ethiopian troops were said to have been wounded in the gunbattle.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic Somali group that has fought alongside insurgents in Somalia, also kidnapped seven Chinese workers, according to a senior Ethiopian government official.
The rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to the Associated Press, saying it had launched "military operations against units of the Ethiopian armed forces guarding an oil exploration site," in the east of the country.
It also warned all international oil companies not to operate in the region. It did not give any details of casualties, but said they had "wiped out"
three Ethiopian military units.
China's official Xinhua News Agency identified the Chinese workers and Ethiopian guards as employees of the Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, a division of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, a huge state-run oil company better known as Sinopec.
A spokesman for Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, based in Addis Ababa, said nine of its Chinese oil workers were killed, seven Chinese workers were kidnapped and 65 Ethiopians were killed in the fighting.
The Zhongyuan official, whose company began working in the volatile Somali Regional State last year, declined to give further details of the attack.

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