ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s military killed 42 armed men accused of attacking a village in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, state-affiliated Fana TV reported on Thursday, as the government sent in more troops to contain ethnic tensions. Mesele said he went with soldiers to collect bodies late on Wednesday and found 93 corpses on one road into the village. “There are still bodies to be collected,” he said. Two medics in the area told Reuters they had heard reports of fresh clashes in two other nearby areas, but had no details. They said they treated people with gunshot and knife wounds. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Wednesday’s attack or who was targeted. The region is home to several ethnic groups. In recent years, people from the neighbouring Amhara region have started moving into the area, prompting some ethnic Gumuz to complain that fertile land is being taken away, experts say. Some Amhara leaders have said publicly that some of the land - especially in the area where the violence occurred - historically belongs to them, which the Gumuz dispute. The human rights commission said survivors it spoke to believed most of the victims were from the Shinasha group. Reuters interviewed one survivor who was Shinasha and one who was Amhara. State-run Ethiopian News Agency reported that five senior officials, including a state minister of the federal government, have been arrested in connection with security issues in Benishangul-Gumuz. It did not go into further detail on specific accusations or charges.