CNN: Mekelle struck, residents flee Amhara as Ethiopia battle intensifies
The Ethiopian government launched an airstrike Friday on the capital of the northern Tigray region, and residents in a city in the neighboring Amhara region said people there were taking flight from intensifying fighting.
Humanitarian sources and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern region, said the airstrike hit a university in the regional capital Mekelle.
Government spokesperson Legese Tulu confirmed an airstrike to CNN but denied it hit the university.
According to Tulu, the strike targeted a communication center being used by the TPLF on a military base in Mekelle.
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