Ethiopia’s Afar region says it came under attack from forces of the neighbouring Tigray region, which seized control of villages and bombed civilians, in the latest sign of internal conflict in the fractured nation.

Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in which an estimated 600,000 people died, and relations with the capital and other regions remain tense.

On Wednesday, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) “entered Afar territory and forcefully took control of six villages, bombarding civilians with mortars and (heavy artillery),” the Afar regional administration said in a statement.

The TPLF has not yet responded to requests for comment from AFP and it was not possible to independently verify the sta

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