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The Tigray People’s Liberation Front reports 56 deaths from government drone attacks on a refugee camp.
The Ethiopian military carried out air strikes on a refugee camp, according to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). According to the TPLF, at least 56 people were said to have died in the bombing on Friday evening.
TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda wrote on Twitter that the drone attack had targeted the refugee camp near Dedebit in the northwest of the region on the border with Eritrea. The government in Addis Ababa has not yet issued a statement on the attack. In previous aerial combat operations, the government denied attacks on civilians.
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Survivors of the air strike will be treated at Shire Shul General Hospital in Dedebit city on January 8, 2022.
Reuters
Over a year ago, fighting broke out in the Tigryy region between troops from the People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)-led regional government and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s central government. Abiy tried to oust the TPLF in Tigray.
The TPLF dominated Ethiopia for a good 25 years until Abiy came to power in 2018. Thousands of people have already been killed in the fighting. More than two and a half million people are on the run.