An Ethiopian government jet bombed the capital of the northern Tigray region on Thursday, with one doctor reporting 10 deaths in the latest casualties of a year-long war. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal forces have hit Mekelle from the skies at least eight times in the last two weeks, residents say, in a fight against local Tigrayan forces that has killed thousands and uprooted more than 2 million people.
Ethiopia’s government said Thursday’s air strike hit and destroyed the other part of Mesfin Industrial Engineering PLC.
But TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda said the strike hit the Kebele 05 residential neighbourhood, killing three people, injuring several others and destroying three houses. Foreign powers are pressing for mediation and the United States is threatening sanctions to stem a conflict reverberating across the already volatile and impoverished Horn of Africa.
The TPLF, which says it is fighting discrimination by central government, was forced out of Mekelle at the end of last year, accused of rebellion and attacking an army base.
But its soldiers swept back from the surrounding mountains and now control most of Tigray and parts of two neighbouring regions – Afar and Amhara – where fighting has also intensified.
The government says it is targeting sites where the TPLF is training, storing equipment, or otherwise using facilities for its war effort.
Source: usnews
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