Dolo hospital airstrike

Dolo hospital airstrike
Part of Second Italo-Ethiopian War
TypeAirstrike
Location
Date30 December 1935 (1935-12-30)
Executed by Italy
Casualties22–30 killed

On 30 December 1935, a Swedish Red Cross field hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by the Italian Air Force in Dolo, Ethiopia, killing between 22 and 30 people, mostly Ethiopians. The attack was reportedly part of an Italian reprisal for the earlier execution of an Italian prisoner of war by Ethiopian troops or civilians.


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