ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government on Saturday disclosed that two major cities in Ethiopia's Amhara regional state were hit by rockets fired by forces of an insurgent region.
"In the late hours of November 13, a rocket was fired towards Bahir Dar and Gondar cities. As a result, the airport areas have sustained damage," the Ethiopian government's state of emergency official fact check portal confirmed on Saturday.
"The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) junta is utilizing the last of the weaponry within its arsenals. Details of the incident are currently under investigation," the statement read.
The Ethiopian government, however, did not disclose the human and material damage incurred by the rocket attack.
Since the early hours of Nov. 4, the Ethiopian government has been undertaking military operations against the TPLF, now in an official war against the federal government.
The Ethiopian government has been blaming the TPLF, which was one of the four coalition fronts of Ethiopia's former ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), for masterminding various treasonous acts across different parts of the country with an overarching goal of destabilizing the East African country.
The mounting differences between the federal government and the TPLF were exacerbated in September this year, when the Tigray regional government decided to go ahead with its planned regional elections, which the Ethiopian parliament had previously postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Enditem
