Monday, February 21, 2022

Detailed Account of 7 January Drone Strike in Ethiopia's Tigray Region

 The print edition of The Washington Post published on 21 February 2022 an account titled "How Ethiopia Used a Turkish Drone in Strike that Killed Dozens of Civilians" by Max Bearak, Meg Kelly, and Joyce Sohyun Lee.  The paper posted on the internet an even more detailed account with video coverage of the incident on 7 February 2022.

The article provides details of the drone strike that occurred on 7 January on a school at a camp for internally displaced persons at Dedebit in Tigray Region.  Bombs from a Turkish drone killed at least 59 persons and injured dozens more.  The persons killed and injured were civilians fleeing the civil war.  

Comment:  There have apparently not been any air strikes in Tigray Region in the past several weeks.