Air Strike on Playground Kills 7 in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region: Hospital

Air Strike on Playground Kills 7 in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region: Hospital
In this still image taken from video, people inspect a damaged playground following an air strike in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, on Aug. 26, 2022. Tigrai TV/Reuters TV via Reuters
|Updated:

NAIROBI—An air strike on a children’s play area killed at least seven people in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Friday, medical officials there said, the first such attack after a four-month old ceasefire collapsed this week.

The officials said three children were among the dead but a a federal government spokesman denied any civilian casualties.