An air strike that hit a refugee camp in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region has killed three Eritrean refugees, including two children, the United Nations says, the latest in a series of strikes reported to have killed civilians. "Three Eritrean refugees, two of them children, were killed," the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) High Commissioner Filippo Grandi said in a statement, adding four other refugees were injured. Air strikes on the Tigray region have continued and the United Nations says no humanitarian aid is able to enter the region. There are 150,000 Eritrean refugees living in Ethiopia and some have been violently targeted by belligerents on both sides of the conflict and cut from aid for months at a time. A Reuters investigation in November revealed that Eritrean refugees had endured targeted killings, gang rapes and looting by both the TPLF and Eritrean forces, who entered the conflict on the side of the Ethiopian federal government.

Source: Ethiopian News January 07, 2022 08:13 UTC