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Tigrai Television showed images of damaged buildings and what
appeared to be wounded people lying on the ground being attended
to by medical personnel.
An aid organisation confirmed that its staff in Mekelle had
heard an explosion and anti-aircraft gunfire. A second
humanitarian group in Mekelle confirmed hearing an explosion
from the air strike.
Earlier on Friday, the Ethiopian government urged Tigrayan
citizens in a statement to stay away from military and training
facilities, saying the government intended to "take actions to
target the military forces".
Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu did not respond to Reuters
queries regarding the air strike.
The strike comes days after fighting resumed on the border of
the Tigray and Amhara regions between the national government
and forces from the Tigray region.
Both sides have blamed each other for breaking the
four-month-old ceasefire between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's
government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the
party that controls Tigray.
(Reporting by Nairobi Newsroom; Writing by George Obulutsa;
Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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