The UN children's agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that 'hit a kindergarten' in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children.
The airstrike hit a kindergarten.
The UN children's agency Unicef on Saturday condemned an air strike that"hit a kindergarten" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children.Friday's strike in the Tigray capital Mekele came days after fighting erupted on the region's southern border between government forces and rebels, ending a five-month truce.Unicef strongly condemns the airstrike ... hit a kindergarten, killing several children, and injuring others.
The Tigray People's Liberation Front that controls the northern region said the air raid demolished a kindergarten and hit a civilian residential area, claims the government denied.Kibrom Gebreselassie, chief clinical director at Mekele's Ayder Referral Hospital, told AFP that four people were killed in the strike, including two children.
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