
© Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty ImagesAn injured resident of Togoga is carried on a stretcher to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekelle on Wednesday, a day after the deadly airstrike.
At least 64 people have been killed and 180 injured in an Ethiopian airstrike on a market in the war-torn Tigray region, according to local health officers, doctors, local residents and witnesses.
"The airstrike was in the market area, so many, many people were injured," said Mulu Atsbaha, an adviser to the Tigray regional administration on maternal and child health on Thursday.
The strike on Tuesday in Togoga
also left 180 injured, Mulu added, explaining that his information had been gathered from residents of Togoga, a town 18 miles (30km) north-west of the regional capital, Mekelle, and "confirmed with local leaders".
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