Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A total of 56 people were killed and 30 injured in an air strike on an internally displaced person camp in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia. This information was said by two witnesses who are volunteer workers, Saturday (08/01/2022).
Citing Reuters on Saturday (08/01/2022), local authorities and eyewitness reports, the two volunteers, who asked not to be named, said the death toll had been confirmed by local authorities.
Images received by Reuters from witnesses showed injured people in hospital, including many children.
One of the witnesses, who visited Shire Shul General Hospital where the injured were taken for treatment, said the camp housed many elderly women and children.
“They told me that the bomb came in the middle of the night. It was really dark and they couldn’t escape,” the witness said.
In addition, witnesses also said the strike hit the camp in the town of Dedebit, in the northwest of the region near the border with Eritrea, on Friday evening.
Military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The government previously denied targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with Tigrayan rebel forces.
Ethiopian federal forces are at war with Tigrayan rebel forces in November 2020.
Prior to the latest attack, at least 146 people were killed and 213 injured in air strikes on Tigray since October 18, according to documents prepared by the aid agency concerned.
(tfa/wia)
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