Mass-execution

According to witnesses, the assailants forcibly took the victims from various villages to the execution site. After gathering them, the assailants executed all 53 Amhara's in six rounds of gunfire. One of the hardest-hit families, Sheikh Abdu Hassen’s family from Begene village lost 12 members including his daughters: Kedija Abdu with her two children, Toyba Abdu and her child and four others, and his daughter-in-law Lubaba Ahmed with her three children.
Among other victims of this mass execution, Ansha Seyd (aged 25) a mother of 15-day-old baby; Asia Yesuf (aged 40) with her four children, Salih Ahmed (aged 7), Juhar Ahmed (aged 5), Serdes Ahmed (aged 3) and a 1-year-old baby; Aminat Seyd (aged 45) with her three children, Ahmedin Seyd (aged 9), Kasim Seyd (aged 6) and Muktar Seyd (aged 4). Other victims were Ansha Abdu (age 1), Hayat Ali (aged 2), Mohammed Ahmed (aged 3) and Semira Mohammed (aged 4) and Zebura Omer (aged 4). One source who was part of the burial of these bodies described the execution as cruel: