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Ethiopia Says Forces Fired on UN Team in Embattled Tigray Region

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   The Ethiopian government says its forces shot at United Nations staff
   members in the country's embattled Tigray Region on Sunday after the
   staffers breached two checkpoints.

   Senior government official Redwan Hussien told reporters in Addis Ababa
   on Tuesday that the incident happened as the U.N. team tried to reach
   the Shimelba camp for Eritrean refugees.

   He said security forces opened fire when the U.N. staffers tried to
   pass through a third checkpoint.

   "They were told in some areas they were not supposed to move," Hussien
   said, "but they indulged themselves in a kind of adventurous
   expedition."

   Hussien also said the staffers were apprehended but have since been
   released.

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