7 people are killed by an airstrike on a playground in Tigray, Ethiopia.

At least seven people were killed in an air strike on a playground on Friday in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, according to local medical officials. This was the first such attack since a four-month-old truce was broken this week.

Three children, according to the authorities, were among the deceased, but a representative for the federal administration denied any civilian casualties.

Two days after the truce was broken by fighting between the national government and Tigrayan forces on the border of the Tigray and Amhara provinces, an airstrike on Mekelle was conducted.

The regional authorities’ owned and operated Tigrai Television attributed the strike to the federal government. In Ethiopian airspace, no additional military aircraft are in use.

Following that, the Ethiopian government warned Tigrayans to avoid military installations, stating that it would “take actions to target the armed troops.”

Ayder Hospital’s CEO, Kibrom Gebreselassie, announced on Twitter that the facility had received four fatalities, including two children, and nine injuries.

He said that a playground had been affected by the strike. Reuters was unable to independently confirm his claims. It was unclear if any military installations were close by.

Legesse Tulu, a spokesman for the federal administration, claimed that reports of civilian casualties were “lies and contrived drama” and charged Tigrayan authorities with “dropping corpse bags.”

He claimed that government attacks solely targeted military installations and denied hitting civilian targets.Tigrai TV footage depicted a structure with the roof blasted off, exposing a twisted jumble of slides and emergency personnel dragging a stretcher from behind a broken pink wall bearing the image of a huge butterfly.