[1][2] Zalambessa is a town at the Eritrean border, woreda Gulomahda, Eastern zone of Tigray.

It started as indiscriminate shelling on the town, coming from the northern (Eritrean) side during 13 consecutive hours.

In one case, which is not at all most extreme, the soldiers entered the house of Haleqa Tewolde Adhanom and his wife Minia Embafrash.

They killed both spouses, then occupied the house, and settled there while feasting on the slaughtered goats of the family.

[1] The inhabitants of Zalambessa interpreted the identity of the perpetrators as Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers.