Ethiopian air strikes struck the northern region’s capital, Tigre, on Thursday. Tigrian forces said three civilians were killed in their homes, while the government said the strike affected a factory where military equipment was kept.
A doctor told Reuters he saw six people pulled out of the rubble from the bombing, and he could not tell whether they were alive or dead. He said the strike took place in the residential Kebele 5 area.
Tigreyan television showed photographs of Red Cross workers at the site of collapsed brick structures with corrugated iron roofs. Blankets and kettles can be seen among the blood-stained debris. At one point, volunteers in gloves hastily covered a part of the body with a sheet.
The airstrikes destroyed another part of Mesfin Industrial Engineering plc, a factory complex that was bombed last week, the government said in a statement, adding that the Tigre People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) was maintaining military equipment. was using for.