Source: Reuters

By Tsegaye Tadesse and Andrew Heavens

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese in their sleep on Tuesday in a pre-dawn raid on an oil field that Ethiopia blamed on rebels backed by regional foe Eritrea.

A separatist guerrilla group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), said it carried out the attack on the field which is run by a Chinese firm.

"Such an outrage, the cold-blooded murder of people who were building roads and engaged in other development activities, is a measure of the level of barbarity involved," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a news conference.

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