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What Do Verified Images of Eritrean Soldiers in Tigray Indicate?
BBC · 4 hours ago · Read the Full Story on BBC
AI SUMMARY
BBC Verify authenticated social media images and videos showing Eritrean soldiers and military vehicles moving through Adigrat and Edaga Hamus in the Tigray region.
- Adigrat residents reported seeing large numbers of Eritrean soldiers crossing through the city in transport vehicles and on foot since the morning of Wednesday.
- BBC Verify authenticated circulating social media images and videos showing troops and vehicles in the Adigrat and Edaga Hamus areas.
- Verified images show individuals in partial Eritrean military uniform driving donkeys, soldiers on a yellow Sinotruk with Eritrean license plates, and troops in a red truck.
- ACLED reported that Eritrean soldiers and their weaponry faced repeated drone strikes in the Adigrat area.
- Local residents reported hearing loud explosions overnight, seeing destroyed Eritrean military vehicles, and observing troops appearing to retreat north.
- ACLED stated that Eritrean troops crossed the Ethiopian border via Zalambessa and were targeted by drone strikes in Guada while moving toward Edaga Hamus.
- Government Communication Minister Natnael Mebratu stated that Eritrean soldiers have entered Tigray and must leave Ethiopian territory.
- Senior federal official Dr. Abraham Belay stated that Eritrean troops are participating in the war in northern Ethiopia.
- The Eritrean government denied that its troops crossed into Ethiopia, with spokesperson Yemane Gebremeskel dismissing eyewitness reports as an effort to spark war.
- Gebregziabher Beyene, commander of the Tigray Peace Forces, stated that the Eritrean army entered Tigray with heavy weaponry.
- Ethiopia recently expelled ten Eritrean diplomats from Addis Ababa, leading Eritrea to sever its diplomatic ties with Ethiopia.
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