Tigray crisis: Ethiopia carries out airstrikes - Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says there have been airstrikes on military targets in Tigray state, whose leaders have fallen out with the national government.

But there has been no confirmation that the targets have been hit.

Tigray's governing party said on Thursday that there had been airstrikes but a senior official told the BBC that nothing had happened on Friday.

Some fear this could be the start of a civil war.

Long-standing tension between Ethiopia's federal government and Tigray, the country's northernmost state, boiled over into clashes this week.