JUBA, Sudan - Unknown gunmen killed 38 civilians in at least five attacks in southern Sudan, a regional government official said on Thursday. “A group of armed men yesterday killed 38 people, among whom were women and children, and destroyed several cars on roads between Juba and the eastern bank of the Nile,” South Sudan’s Interior Minister Paul Mayom Akec told reporters at a news conference in Juba.He refused to speculate on who might have carried out the attacks, but southern Sudan is hosting peace talks between neighbouring Uganda and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, long based in lawless parts of the south. “It is not my immediate desire to talk about the identity of the attackers ... no matter whoever they can be, in order for us not to jeopardise the ongoing peace talks,” Akec said.
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