[Bangla Daily Star] Clashes between rival ethnic groups in south Sudan have left more than 170 people dead, a district official said yesterday. Armed fighters from the Murle ethnic group in remote Akobo county in eastern Jonglei state attacked Lou Nuer villages over the weekend, county commissioner Doyak Chol said."We have found 177 bodies dead, and we are expecting many more, even as high as 300 in total," Chol told AFP by satellite telephone. "Many are unaccounted for, whole villages have been burnt to the ground. The destruction is terrible."
It was the second outbreak of deadly violence between the two ethnic groups in Jonglei in a month. In March, as many as 750 people were killed in clashes in Pibor county further south.