Ethiopian air force strikes hit Tigray region on Sunday
One of many strikes hit a navy command submit and coaching middle belonging to the Tigray Folks’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF) — the area’s ruling social gathering — within the metropolis of Mai Tsebri, in accordance with Legese.
A second strike focused the city of Adwa the place Legese alleged the TPLF have been manufacturing navy gear and faux Ethiopian Nationwide Protection Forces uniforms.
TPLF denied that the Ethiopian air drive had hit navy targets in Tigray on Sunday, and as an alternative stated the strikes focused a hospital and a textile manufacturing facility.
“Mockingly, additionally they focused what little is left of Almeda Textike in Adwa,” he wrote. “The textile manufacturing facility had been completely destroyed by Ethio-Eritrean forces months in the past.”
Getachew additional contradicted Legese, saying “no navy targets” have been hit.
Communications are down throughout Tigray and it was not instantly doable to achieve the TPLF, humanitarian sources or witnesses on the bottom for remark.
Abiy despatched central authorities troops who drove the TPLF out of Mekelle late final yr. However forces allied to the TPLF launched a counter-attack this yr, recapturing Mekelle and almost all of Tigray, and seizing swathes of Amhara.