It has been reported that ten people have been killed in the second day of the air strikes which have been targeted on Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Wednesday as had been reported by hospital officials.
The attacks had also come after the authorities there had expressed readiness for a ceasefire.
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The Twin drone attacks had also reportedly hit a neighbourhood which is located in Tigray’s capital Mekele at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT), thereby killing 10 and injuring more than a dozen others, two officials from the biggest hospital in the war-torn region said. The air raids had also followed an announcement by Tigrayan authorities on Sunday that they were ready for talks led by the African Union (AU) to end almost two years of the brutal warfare in northern Ethiopia.
On Wednesday, the Ethiopian government said it was “committed” to the AU-led peace process following calls by the international community for the warring sides to seize the opportunity for peace.
“Death toll raised to 10,” Kibrom Gebreselassie, a senior official at Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, told AFP via text message. In a later statement, he said 14 people were injured.
Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon at the same hospital, confirmed the death toll, adding that the first bombing injured two women followed by a second strike “on the people gathered to help and see the victims”.
“Among the victims, a father was dead and his son is taken to surgery,” he said on Twitter.
AFP was not able to independently verify the claims. Access to northern Ethiopia is severely restricted and Tigray has been under a communications blackout for more than a year.
