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Official: 11 dead in attack on South Sudan town

26 June 2011 01:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. A Southern Sudanese official says 11 people have died after a militia group allegedly allied to the northern government attacked a southern town, APA reports quoting â€œAssociated Pressâ€.
Domenic Deng, the commissioner of Twic county, said Saturday that eight members of the militia and three Southern Sudanese soldiers died in a morning attack on Turalei.
Turalei hosts thousands of people who had been displaced from their homes in the contested north and south region of Abyei following attacks by Sudan’s army.
Violence has increased in the regions contested by north and South Sudan ahead of the South’s independence next month.
Col. Philip Aguer, a military spokesman for the southern army, said the attacks are part of a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the south before it gains independence.