Four people including two children were killed Friday in an Ethiopian air strike on Tigray's capital, a hospital official said, as the government denied rebel claims that it had targeted civilians in the rebel-held region.
Reports of the air strike on Mekele came just days after ground fighting resumed between government forces and rebels after a five-month lull, ending a truce and dashing hopes of peace talks.
Kibrom Gebreselassie, chief clinical director at Mekele's Ayder Referral Hospital -- the region's largest medical facility -- told AFP that four people had died "by the time they arrive (at) the hospital".
"Two of the dead are children," he said in a message, adding that nine others were injured in the bombing.
As Tigrayan rebels accused the air force of hitting a residential area and a kindergarten, the government said it was "targeting only military sites." -
Source: National News Agency