Aid agencies have suspended operations in a zone of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region where dozens of people were reportedly killed in an air strike, the UN says.

“The ongoing threats of drone strikes” left them little choice but to halt activities, the UN’s humanitarian agency Ocha has said.

Aid workers over the weekend said that 56 people had been killed and dozens more injured in an airstrike on a camp for the displaced.

It came as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesman, Getachew Reda, accused Eritrea of launching fresh attacks against the group’s fighters. It has not responded to the accusations.

Ethiopian government forces, bolstered by Eritrean troops, have been fighting rebels in Tigray for more than a year in a war that has killed thousands of people.

Source: bbc