“Three Eritrean refugees, two of them children, were killed,” the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) head Filippo Grandi said in a statement, adding that four other refugees were injured. The United Nations did not specify who carried out the strike but only the Ethiopian government has air power in the area. It records 41 air strikes, with the deadliest being on Dec. 16 strike in the town of Alamata that killed 38 and wounded 86. Air strikes on the Tigray region have continued and the United Nations says no humanitarian aid is able to enter the region. About 150,000 Eritrean refugees live in Ethiopia and some have been targeted by belligerents on both sides of the conflict and cut off from aid for months at a time.

Source: Ethiopian News January 07, 2022 07:59 UTC