‘Many dead’ in airstrike on market

DOZENS of people were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Tuesday.

Two doctors and a nurse in Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele, said they were unable to confirm how many people had been killed, but one doctor said health workers at the scene in Togoga had reported “more than 80 civilian deaths”.

The alleged airstrike comes amid some of the fiercest fighting in the Tigray region since the conflict began in November, as Ethiopian forces supported by those from neighbouring Eritrea, pursue Tigray’s former leaders.

Patients being treated at Mekele’s Ayder hospital told health workers a plane dropped a bomb on Togoga’s marketplace.