Air strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray kills dozens of people – witnesses

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Dozens of people reportedly killed after air strike hits busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga

An internally displaced girl helps her mother to carry donated items in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 22, 2021.

Two doctors and a nurse in Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele, said they were unable to confirm how many people were killed, but one doctor said health workers at the scene reported “more than 80 civilian deaths.” The alleged airstrike comes amid some of the fiercest fighting in the Tigray region since the conflict began in November as Ethiopian forces supported by those from neighbouring Eritrea pursue Tigray’s former leaders.

“It was horrific,” said a staffer with an international aid group who told the AP he had spoken with a colleague and others at the scene. “We don’t know if the jets were coming from Ethiopia or Eritrea. They are still looking for bodies by hand. More than 50 people were killed, maybe more.” “We have been asking, but until now we didn’t get permission to go, so we don’t know how many people are dead,” said one of the doctors in Mekele.

While the United Nations has said all sides have been accused of abuses, Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers have been repeatedly accused by witnesses of looting and destroying health centers across the Tigray region and denying civilians access to care.

 

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