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South Sudan: Sudanese air force ‘bombs the South, killing soldier’

by Our Foreign Desk

SOUTH Sudan’s government accused Sudan yesterday of bombing two locations in its territory, killing at least one soldier and wounding others.

State Minister for Information Peter Hoth alleged that a suspected Sudanese warplane had bombed the Maban and Renk counties of Upper Nile state on Sunday and Monday.

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