There was obvious tension in the pose of the Ethiopian soldiers.

He was shooed away by Ethiopian soldiers at the gate and told never to come back.

Among the dead were at least three Ethiopian soldiers and four insurgents.

Within a minute, six Ethiopian soldiers were standing next to him.

That pace was one which Ethiopian soldiers could keep up for hours.

One resident says he had seen six dead Ethiopian soldiers in uniform being carried past his house.

Two Ethiopian soldiers were confirmed to be among the dead.

"Some people have seen this and they think that Ethiopian soldiers are surrounding them, but it's actually our forces," he said.

Ethiopian soldiers said they had found something in the trenches emphatically not dead, a 1-month-old boy.

By then much of the country was controlled by Ethiopian soldiers.