Calm in South Sudan after close to 700 killed
Militia and ethnic fighting has ceased in South Sudan as the death toll in the two separate clashes creeps to 675, officials said on Tuesday.
In Jonglei state, where two rivalling tribes clashed on Thursday in Pieri Village in Uror County, more than 600 people have been killed in action, according to a report by a parliamentary team that visited the site in the aftermath of the fighting.
A separate militia fighting in Upper Nile state that erupted on Saturday ceased after 72 were killed, the Upper Nile state Governor, Simon Kun Puoch said.
Timothy Taban Juch, a member of a parliamentary team that visited Uror County described the clash as “terrible” and “horrible”.
“The fighting has stopped but the casualties are too many. It is over six hundred killed in action and then the wounded is ranging from 600 to 750 and 985 were wounded,” Juch said
“The abducted children range from 198 to 200. The number of cattle raided is over 36,000 and there are about 14 villages partially burnt down, including the payam headquarters and offices of MSF Belgium,” Juch said.
