afrol News, 5 November - Ethiopian authorities have warned its people to guard against imminent terrorist attack, urging citizens to collaborate with security forces.

"The National Intelligence Security Service has received credible information about an impending terrorist plot to be carried out inside Ethiopia, and we have information that could lead to crack on a looming plot," police said in a statement.

A series of bomb blasts have rocked Ethiopian capital this year with authorities blaming neighbouring Eritrea, along with secessionist groups such as Ogaden National Liberation Front and Oromo Liberation Front.

In September, a bomb explosion inside a bar in Addis Ababa killed four people and injured 24 others, and in May, a bomb blast on a minibus near foreign ministry killed six people, including a US national.

Ethiopia generally accuses neighbouring Eritrea along with rebel movements over their border dispute, in which some 70,000 people were killed.

Three people were also killed and 18 wounded in bomb blasts that simultaneously ripped through petrol stations in the capital earlier this year.

The two countries have been deadlocked over their 1,000 kms (620-mile) frontier since a 2000 border ruling and analysts fear even a small incident could trigger renewed hostilities.

Relations between Asmara and Addis Ababa have been frosty since they fought a devastating 1998-2000 border war that claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides. The dispute is yet to be resolved.

The purported terrorist threat came as Ethiopia's main opposition party expressed concern over shrinking political freedom following arrest of another opposition party's leader.

By staff writer

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