Food aid agency accuses TPLF fighters of looting 12 trucks of fuel
Tigray soldiers arriving in Mekele on June 29, 2021. The World Food Programme (WFP) has accused Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters of looting 570,000 litres of fuel from its warehouse in Mekelle. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday accused Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters of looting 570,000 litres of fuel from the UN agency’s warehouse in the region.
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, told reporters that Tigrayan forces on the morning of August 24, “forcibly entered” the World Food Program Warehouse in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, and “stole” 12 truck tankers of oil (570,000 litres).
