Earlier this month, a Belgium-based non-profit organisation – European External Programme with Africa – reported that 750 people who were hiding in Orthodox Maryam Tsiyon Church (The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion) in Aksum were brought out and shot in the square.

Speaking to Christian charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), an anonymous source said: “I heard there were 1,000 people in the church. It might be that more were injured and died later. 750 were killed for sure.”