Ethiopia drone strike on school kills three, Tigray sources say
A drone strike in northern Ethiopia struck a school during a holiday break, killing three people, according to Tigray sources cited by BBC News.
The reported strike hit an unoccupied school, the sources said, adding that the facility was empty because of a scheduled vacation. As of reporting, Ethiopia’s federal government in Addis Ababa had not commented on the incident, leaving the circumstances unclear.
Ethiopia’s north has been the focus of a long-running internal conflict that escalated sharply in November 2020, when federal forces and allied Eritrean troops entered the Tigray region to confront the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the regional party that had dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades. Fighting later spread to neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions, causing mass displacement and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.
A ceasefire agreement signed in Pretoria in November 2022 formally ended the large-scale hostilities, and the TPLF was subsequently removed from the federal government’s terrorist designation. However, sporadic violence and security tensions have persisted across northern Ethiopia, particularly in disputed border areas between Tigray and Amhara.
Independent verification of events in Tigray remains difficult, with journalists facing restricted access and limited communications infrastructure. Reports from the region are often relayed through Tigrayan officials, diaspora networks and a small number of international agencies.
The silence from the federal government means the claims have yet to be officially confirmed or denied. Tigray authorities have continued to draw attention to security incidents in the region, where humanitarian conditions remain fragile despite the formal end of the war.
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