Three MSF workers ‘brutally murdered’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Medical charity expresses shock and sadness over killing of three of its staff in embattled northern Ethiopian region.

be relentless in understanding what happenedThree employees of the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray regional, the organisation said. The group said in a statement emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, assistant coordinator Yohannes Halefom Reda and driver Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael were travelling on Thursday afternoon when it lost contact with them. On Friday morning, their bodies were found a few metres away from the vehicle they were using, MSF said, without providing details about the exact location. “We condemn this attack on our colleagues in the strongest possible terms and will be relentless in understanding what happened,” MSF added.