ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian security forces have arrested 373 people suspected of being involved in a violent riot in a northern city, an official said.

According to reports, Desalegn Tassew, the chief of the Amhara region's peace and security department, the suspects are accused of involvement in disturbances in Gonder city earlier this week. Tassew was reported by state media outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate as saying that security forces who failed to respect their duties to prevent the deadly violence would be held criminally guilty.

The Amhara Region Islamic Affairs Council, a local religious authority, stated on Wednesday that "extremist Christians" had slain at least 20 people in Gonder city the day before.

Tassew, the security chief for the Amhara region, did not disclose how many people were killed in the incident. According to accounts in the media, adherents of the Islamic and Christian faiths have long had competing claims to territory surrounding a graveyard.
The cemetery where the incident took place is close to a mosque and a church, and has been the site of a long-running feud between Muslims and Ethiopia's major Christian community, the Orthodox Christians.

The violence  reportedly occurred as people fought over whether stones from the area could be used for burial purposes, and if the materials should be taken from the cemetery or the church property, 

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