One Killed in New Air Strike on Ethiopia’s Tigray: HospitalOne person was killed in a fresh air strike on Ethiopia’s rebel-held Tigray on Friday, the region’s biggest hospital said, capping a month of renewed clashes between pro-government forces and Tigrayan fighters. But fighting has only escalated in the weeks since, with air strikes pounding the northern region and Ethiopia’s ally Eritrea crossing the border to join the battle against its old foe, the TPLF. A 60 year old man was killed,” Kibrom Gebreselassie, a senior official at Ayder Referral Hospital in Tigray’s capital Mekele, told AFP in a message. Since the latest clashes broke out, 17 people have died in air strikes in Tigray, including Friday’s fatality, according to hospital officials. Access to northern Ethiopia is severely restricted and Tigray has been under a communications blackout for more than a year.

Source: Ethiopian News September 23, 2022 21:15 UTC