Nairobi, Dec. 16 -- The World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that his uncle had been "murdered" by Eritrean forces in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region.

Dr Tedros said that Eritrean soldiers killed his uncle in a village in the Tigray region along with more than 50 residents.

"They killed him in his home," he said, adding that "more than 50 people were killed" in the same village and described the killings as "just arbitrary".

Speaking at the end of a news conference about Covid-19 in Geneva, Tedros said he had considered cancelling the conference because he was "not in good shape" after recently learning of his uncle's death.

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