(Corrects to show that commission did not specify ethnicity of victims)
(Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 150 people last week in western Ethiopia, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Thursday, in what it described as an attack by an armed group on civilians.
The commission said that Eastern Wollega residents told its investigators that the gunmen were from the OLF-Shane or Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), a formerly banned opposition group.
That group sent a statement Thursday denying that it had killed civilians in the incidents described by the commission.
(This story corrects to show that commission did not specify ethnicity of victims)
(Reporting by Ayenat Mersie; Editing by Giles Elgood)
