Sudan: Ten Southern Returnees Killed, 18 Injured in North-South Border Ambush

11 January 2011

Juba — At least 10 southern Sudanese travelling to the south were killed and 18 seriously wounded in ambush on Monday allegedly carried out by armed Messeriya militias at the border between north and south Sudan, an official said Tuesday.

The incident on Monday evening occurred on the border of the southern state of Northern Bahr el Ghazel and South Kordofan State, on the northern side of the border, according to Southern Sudan's Interior Minister, Gier Chuang Aluong.

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