Scores of people have been killed in a militia attack on a town in southern Sudan, focusing new attention on warnings that peace in the region remains fragile in spite of the 2005 peace accord which ended the north-south civil was in the country.
The Sudan Tribune reported from Bor on Tuesday that 76 people were confirmed dead in an attack in Jonglei state, which the news service said had been launched on people of the Dinka Bor ethnic group. But Agence France-Presse quoted a spokesman for the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) as saying the death toll was more than 100.
"There is a total of 102 killed, including 51 civilians and 23 of the attackers, and 46 injured," Major General Kuol Diem Kuol said.
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