Asmara - Eritrea said yesterday its army killed at least 10,000 Ethiopian troops in intense fighting along their contested border this week.
Presidential adviser Mr Yermane Gebremeskel said clashes continued yesterday in the western border region of Badme but that fighting had died down along the central Tsorona front, where journalists saw hundreds of dead Ethiopian soldiers on Tuesday.
Ethiopia denied Eritrea's claims and dismissed the apparent evidence as a publicity stunt to fool journalists.