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File photo/ October 2021/ Ethiopia's air strike hits
capital of Tigray
Tuesday’s attack follows a hit on a children’s play area on Friday that killed seven people, including women and children.
Less than a week after fighting
broke apart a four-month-old ceasefire, the head of another hospital that
received injuries reported that an air raid had struck a neighbourhood close to
a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
A location close to Mekelle
General Hospital had been hit late on Tuesday, according to Kibrom
Gebreselassie, CEO of Ayder Referral Hospital, who posted the information on
Twitter.
It was unknown how much damage
and casualties had occurred.
Requests for
comment on the airstrike went unanswered by Legesse Tulu, Colonel Getnet Adane,
and Billene Seyoum, the spokeswoman for the prime minister of Ethiopia.
Getachew
Reda, spokesman for the Tigray regional government, said on Twitter that at
least three bombs had been dropped and that the Mekelle hospital was among the
targets.
Another
doctor at Ayder confirmed to Reuters he had heard three explosions late at
night.
Reuters
was unable to reach people in Mekelle for confirmation because the region has
not had phone communication since Ethiopian troops pulled out more than a year
ago.
The
latest strike follows a hit on a children’s play area on Friday that killed
seven people, including women and children.
The
renewed fighting marks the end of a ceasefire observed since March and comes as
a big blow to attempts to start peace talks between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s
government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the party that controls
Tigray.
The
conflict has displaced millions of people, pushed parts of the region into
famine and killed thousands of civilians.
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