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Air strike hits capital of in Ethiopia's Tigray region - health official

(Corrects to reflect second tweet said strike near not on hospital)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An air strike hit the neighbourhood near a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region late on Tuesday, said the head of another hospital which received casualties, less than a week after fighting shattered a four-month old ceasefire.

Kibrom Gebreselassie, chief executive of Ayder General Hospital, said on Twitter that an area near Mekelle General Hospital had been hit. The extent of the damage and casualties was unclear.

Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu, military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and the prime minister's spokeswoman Billene Seyoum did not respond to requests for comment on the air strike.

(This story corrects to reflect second tweet said strike near not on hospital)

(Reporting by Nairobi newsroom; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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