Air strike in Tigray targeted combatants, not civilians: Ethiopia

Military spokesman admits it was behind Tuesday’s deadly attack but says it targeted rebels ‘in civilian clothes’.

Ethiopia’s military has defended Tuesday’s air strike on a busy market in the restive Tigray region, which left dozens of people dead, saying the attack targeted rebel fighters “in civilian clothes”. “We do not accept that this operation targeted civilians,” Colonel Getnet Adane, Ethiopian National Defense Force spokesman, told Reuters news agency, adding that the combatants in the town of Togoga were dressed in civilian clothes. At least 43 people were killed in the air raid on a busy market on Tuesday, according to medics.