Brussels 28th August : Brussels, Aug 28 : European Union on Sunday condemned reports of an airstrike hitting an elementary school during the ongoing combat in the northern part of Ethiopia and urged the parties to participate in peace talks.The conflict “endangers life of millions of people already in immense pain,” European Council President Charles Michel wrote on Twitter.
Many civilians including children died in the air strike that struck an elementary school in the capital of the war-ravaged Ethiopian province of Tigray the DPA news agency reported using local media reports of the incident on Friday.
Airstrikes that have been reported targeting civilians “cast shadows of terrible severity” on Ethiopian government’s determination to participate in talks on peace, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
The director of the UN’s child agency, UNICEF, Catherine Russell announced on Saturday on Twitter that seven individuals were killed in the strike.
The conflict between the Ethiopian national army and the fighters with the separatist Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has gotten worse this week.
The conflict was first reported in 2020, as TPLF began their efforts to separate from Ethiopia and provoked fighting that saw Tigray’s borders closed to food and aid , and at other times witnessed TPLF fighters threaten to take over Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.
According to reports in the media according to the media reports, according to media reports, the Ethiopian military was responsible for the attack on Tigray’s capital Mek’ele.
However there was no official statement by the military.
A government statement released on Friday advised people in Tigray to remain away from military installations, as some of them may be targets.
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