Six people were killed on Tuesday in Adama town when protests erupted a day after the popular Oromo singer was shot dead, reported BBC Amharic, citing said Dr. Mekonnen Feyissa, the medical director of Adama main hospital. Six people died on their way to the hospital and two died in intensive care, he was quoted as saying. “There are 75 casualties who came from Adama and around, most bullet injuries. There are also 19 people who came from the nearby Dera town, with burn injuries. They said their houses were set on fire,” Dr. Mekonnen told BBC Amharic.

Government buildings were set ablaze in the town, residents said.

In the town of Chiro, west Hararge, two people were shot and killed during protests there, medical staff at the hospital told BBC Amharic. At least four persons including an 8-year-old were killed by security forces in Negelle town of the Guji Zone during a protest earlier today, according to VOA.

Black smoke filled the air as protesters burned tyres to block main roads in the towns in the Oromia region on Tuesday. An equestrian statue of Ras Makonnen, Emperor Menelik’s nephew and the father of Haile Selassie, is demolished by demonstrators in Harar town. Ras Makonnen served as a general in the First Italo-Ethiopian War, playing a key role at the Battle of Adwa but he is seen by some Oromos as settlers generally referred to as neftegna (which translates as “rifleman” and often used as euphemisim for the Amharas.)