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An airstrike by the Ethiopian Air Force hit a kindergarten in the country’s Tigray region on Friday, causing casualties on Friday, according to local broadcasters. was.
Tigray TV cited eyewitness accounts that the afternoon attack hit a kindergarten called Red Kids Paradise in the Tigray capital Mek’ele. Graphic images of children and adults with dismembered bodies in the aftermath of the attack were shown.
Broadcaster Dimtsi Weyane reported that a house near a kindergarten was also hit by the strike.
Officials in Tiglayan called the airstrike a “heartless and sadistic” attack.
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“This unscrupulous regime has won by deliberately targeting children’s homes today,” they said in a statement.
The statement did not say how many people were killed in the airstrikes. However, Kiblom Gebrselassie, director of Eider Hospital in Mekelle, said on Twitter that at least two of the four dead were children.
“More casualties are arriving. So far, our hospital has a total of 13,” he said.
The AP has not been able to independently verify the footage. Ethiopian authorities did not immediately comment on the report.
However, Ethiopia’s government communications service said in a statement on Friday that the government “will take action targeting the army, which is the source of anti-peace sentiment in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front”.
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It warned Tigray people to stay away from military equipment and training facilities used by Tigray forces.
The kindergarten strike report comes amid renewed fighting between Ethiopian federal forces and Tigray fighters. Both sides accused each other of resuming war on Wednesday after a lull in fighting since June 2021.
The conflict in Tigray, which began in November 2020, has killed thousands in Africa’s second most populous country with more than 115 million people. The conflict has subsided in recent months amid slow-moving mediation efforts. But last week, a spokeswoman for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told journalists that the Tigray authorities “refused to accept peace talks.”
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The Ethiopian government says it is ready to negotiate, but insists the African Union must lead mediation efforts.
Tigray authorities have criticized the African Union’s efforts and urgently called for the resumption of telephone, banking and other services that have been largely cut off since the civil war began. A statement by Tiglayan officials after Friday’s airstrikes accused the federal government of being uninterested in peace talks.
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The conflict has created a humanitarian crisis for millions of people affected by fighting in Amhara and the neighboring Afar region, but thousands of Tiglayans now live in Sudanese refugee camps. increase.