In the latest development, one person has been killed in an air strike in the capital of Tigray, the main hospital in the northern Ethiopian breakaway region said on Friday. A 60-year-old man was killed," Kibrom Gebreselassie, an official at Ayder Hospital in Mekele, told AFP. "A dead body has arrived at Ayder hospital after a drone attack in Mekele town around Desta hotel," the hospital announced on its Twitter account. The Ethiopian government regularly asserts that it only targets military targets and accuses the rebels of staging civilian deaths. Since then, at least 17 people have died in air strikes, according to hospital officials.

Source: Ethiopian News September 23, 2022 21:08 UTC