UPDATE 1-At least three people shot dead in Ethiopian capital -residents

At least three people including one man in an unidentified uniform were shot dead in a shooting in a central district of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, residents said.

There was no immediate statement from authorities on the incident.

Roads in the Bole district were blocked off, residents said, but by 0630 GMT, calm appeared to have returned to the area, they said.

Since Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April he has undertaken a series of major reforms including making peace with arch-foe Eritrea, freeing political prisoners, pledging to open up the state-controlled economy and promising to overhaul the security services.

But the changes have not stopped the ethnically-charged violence that has escalated since he was named premier - including in his own native Oromiya region where protesters first took to the streets in 2015 over perceived marginalisation by the state.