A satellite image shows smoke rising from Mekelle, Ethiopia, October 20, 2021.An Ethiopian government air strike on the capital of the northern Tigray region on Friday forced a UN aid flight to abort a landing there, the United Nations said.Humanitarian sources and the Tigray People's Liberation Front , which controls the area, said a university in the regional capital Mekelle was hit by the air strike.
The United Nations suspended all flights to Mekelle after a U.N. plane with 11 passengers had to abort landing on Friday. The passengers were aid workers traveling to a region where some 7 million people, including 5 million in Tigray, need humanitarian help, she said.'THE WHOLE CITY IS PANICKING' The government has stepped up air strikes on the Tigray capital as fighting has escalated in Amhara, a neighbouring region where the TPLF has seized territory that the government and allied armed Amhara armed groups are trying to recover.
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