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18 killed in S.Sudan attack over land rights
(BSS/AFP) - Armed attackers from a neighbouring statekilled or burned to death 18 people, including eight soldiers, in SouthSudan's Western Bahr el Gazal state, the state's interim governor saidTuesday.
Arkenjelo Anyar Anyar said armed youths from the neighbouring Warrap statetorched a local market, houses and a police station in Tharkueng Payamfollowing a dispute over land rights.
He said the 10 dead civilians included "children, women, elderly, they wereburned because they couldn't escape", adding that around 2,000 people weredisplaced or homeless.
Thirty-nine people were killed and dozens of others were wounded lastWednesday when violence broke out between rival groups of cattle herders inSouth Sudan's Warrap and Lake states.
One of the poorest countries on the planet despite large oil reserves, SouthSudan has spent almost half of its life as a nation at war, and has alsoendured persistent natural disasters, hunger, economic meltdown and communalconflict.