Dozens of people were wounded or killed in an airstrike on a market in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, witnesses told AFP Wednesday.
"There were lots of injured people and dead people," said 20-year-old survivor Birhan Gebrehiwet, whose house next to the market was destroyed by Tuesday's blast.Birhan said she was selling drinks around lunchtime when the attack happened.An emergency worker at a hospital in the regional capital Mekele, 30 kilometres away, said six wounded people had so far been admitted - including three young children - adding that soldiers were preventing others from leaving Togoga.
In recent days, as votes were cast and counted across much of the vast nation of 110 million people, there were reports of rebel advances in Tigray.