Nearly 170 people killed in attack in South Sudan’s Ruweng, officials say
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Separately, MSF says 26 humanitarian workers are missing following recent violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei state.
At least 169 people have been killed after dozens of armed men attacked a town in South Sudan’s Ruweng Administrative Area, local officials said.
A group of unidentified youths from Mayom County in neighbouring Unity state stormed Abiemnhom County on Sunday, the area’s information minister, James Monyluak Mijok, said on Monday.
Of those killed, 82 were children, women, and the elderly, he told the Reuters news agency.
Fifty other people sustained “major and minor injuries” in the attack, he added.
“I would like to sadly inform you that among those killed included the county commissioner and the executive director,” Mijok said.
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