South Sudan Officials Blame UN for Deadly Attack in Bor

Juba — Senior South Sudan government officials on Friday blamed United Nations peacekeepers for provoking a deadly attack on a U.N. compound in Bor by firing warning shots into the air to disperse a large group of armed civilians who had gathered outside the base.

"You don't stop a moving mob with gunshots if you know that they are armed," government spokesman Michael Makuei said.

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