A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a UN official said late Wednesday.

The estimate was presented at a meeting on Monday of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, comprising 18 UN and non-UN organizations that is chaired by UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also attended, the official said.