Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia say the federal government has conducted fresh air strikes in the region’s capital, Mekelle.
Tigrai Television – affiliated with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – has showed images of a destroyed building and said civilians were killed in the strikes.
But a statement released by the government’s communications office said people in Tigray should stay away from areas where the TPLF’s military equipment and training facilities were located.
It did not address the accusations about the air strikes, but it does seem to suggest that aerial attacks are imminent.
It would be a further escalation of the fighting which reignited earlier this week after five months of a ceasefire. ENDS
