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Mekele after the air strike: According to the government, the attack was on a TPLF weapons depot - residents speak of an industrial plant
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For the second time this week, the Ethiopian air force attacked targets in the crisis region of Tigray.
As the government in Addis Ababa announced, targets in the regional capital Mekele and Agbe were bombed on Wednesday.
According to the rebel organization TPLF and doctors, civilians were also injured.
According to the government in Addis Ababa, weapons depots belonging to the rebel organization TPLF were attacked in Mekele.
According to a resident of the city, an industrial plant was destroyed.
The TPLF spoke on Twitter of an attack on a residential area in Mekele, in which civilians were injured.
Eight injuries were reported from a local hospital, including a pregnant woman.
A spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed concern about the attacks.
Everything that could affect civilians or their infrastructure must be avoided.
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who took up another term almost two weeks ago, appears to be launching a new offensive against the TPLF.
Ethiopian government troops attacked the ruling TPLF in Tigray province in November 2020 in response to TPLF attacks on army positions.
Almost two million people have since been displaced from the crisis region.
There are numerous reports of atrocities, including massacres and mass rape.
After months of fighting with thousands dead, the violence has spread to the neighboring regions of Afar in the east and Amhara in the south.
In the largely isolated Tigray, there is also a serious humanitarian crisis as a result of the conflict.
Abiy took office in 2018 with the promise of democratization.
At that time, after years of mass protests, he replaced the coalition that had ruled until then, led by the TPLF.
Since then, the party of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Abiy has celebrated great victories in several elections.
Election observers, however, repeatedly complained that international standards for fair elections had been fallen far short of.
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