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Old 08-04-2009, 04:50   #1
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160 killed in Sudan tribal raid

160 killed in Sudan tribal raid

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...03/2644995.htm

"More than 160 people were killed when heavily armed South Sudan tribal fighters launched a dawn raid on a rival group, officials said, the latest in a series of bloody ethnic clashes.

Mostly women and children died when men from the Murle ethnic group attacked a camp in the Akobo area of the region's swampy Jonglei state, where oil exploration is under way.

"One hundred women and children, 50 men and 11 SPLA (soldiers from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army) are being buried by the riverside this morning," Akobo commissioner Goi Jooyul Yol said.

"There may still be bodies in the bush. We don't yet know the full number."...."
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