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ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has arrested suspects linked to last week’s bomb blast near the foreign ministry in Addis Ababa that killed six people, including a US national, state media reported yesterday.

Ethiopian police did not specify the number of arrests, but blamed the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and its arch-foe Eritrea for last Tuesday’s blast in a minibus near the entrance to the foreign ministry. Seven people were injured.

"Some of the alleged terrorists that blew a minibus taxi with an explosive on May 20 in Addis Ababa were put under custody," Ethiopian News Agency quoted police and security officials as saying.

Evidence indicates "that the terrorist act was coordinated by the Eritrean regime and the anti-peace group ’Oromo Liberation Front’ which is an instrument of the regime," it added.

The US victim was believed to be a teacher at the University of Addis Ababa, from which the minibus had originally departed.

Three people were killed and 18 wounded in bomb blasts at petrol stations in Addis Ababa on April 14.

The authorities routinely accuse OLF, the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front and Eritrea, for such attacks.