56 people killed in ethnic clashes in eastern South Sudan

KHARTOUM, Dec. 28 (YPA) – At least 56 people have been killed in clashes that took place over four days in Jonglei State, eastern South Sudan.

Reuters news agency quoted a local official today, Tuesday, as saying that “56 people were killed in clashes that took place over four days in Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan, after youths from the Nuer tribe attacked another ethnic group.”

The official pointed out that most of the dead were from the Nuer tribe.

The revenge operations and clashes over livestock and land have been going on for decades in South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011.

The government official in Pibor administration, Abraham Klang, said armed Nuer youths began their attack on the Murle tribe on December 24 in the districts of Gumuruk and Likwanjol.

YPA