Adi Daero

Adi Daero ዓዲ ዳዕሮ
Town
Adi Daero Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 14.312479478674936°N 38.17189751360551°E / 14.312479478674936; 38.17189751360551
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Tigray
Zone	Northwestern Zone
Woreda	Adi Daero town
Elevation	3,012 m (9,882 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	21,134[1]
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)

Adi Daero (Ge'ez: ዓዲ ዳዕሮ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia located at 977 km north of Addis Ababa and 278 km northwest of Mekelle along the highway which runs from Shire to Sheraro to Humera. The town is also the administrative center of the La'ilay Adiyabo woreda (district).

Adi Daero Airstrike

On 4 October 2022, the Ethiopian National Defense Force launched an airstrike at a school housing internally displaced people in the town, killing more than 50 and injuring at least 70 others.^[2] According to Tigrayan authorities and some witnesses the death toll was at least 65. The attack is one of the deadliest in the Tigray War.^[3]

References

1. "Supplimentary file for War-related sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: a community-based study" (PDF), gh.bmj.com, 1 July 2023, retrieved July 23, 2023
2. Ross, Aaron (5 October 2022). Heinrich, Mark (ed.). "U.N. told Ethiopia in January that school hit in air strike housed displaced people -humanitarian sources".
3. Heinrich, Mark, ed. (5 October 2022). "More than 50 killed in northern Ethiopia air strike -aid workers and Tigray forces". Reuters. Reporting by Nairobi Newsroom.