Artillery fire kills four civilians in southern Ethiopia’s Tigray
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’Union
Artillery fire in southern Tigray, Ethiopia, has killed four of around 40 civilians wounded in recent days, according to a medical source in Mekele cited by AFP. The shelling follows the resumption of fighting on 23 September between federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, Sonapresse reports.
Around 40 civilians, including children, have been wounded in recent days by artillery fire on localities in the southern part of Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state, in the country’s north. Four of them have died, a medical source in the regional capital Mekele told AFP on Tuesday. Residents who accompanied victims to Mekele’s Aydar Hospital confirmed the shelling.
Fighting resumed on 23 September between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the political organisation that effectively runs the regional state and whose legality is disputed by the authorities in Addis Ababa. The renewed clashes came after several months of tension.
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