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Al Jazeera English - Africa - Deadly clashes in South Sudan

Al Jazeera English - Africa - Deadly clashes in South Sudan: "More than 185 people are reported to have been killed in heavily armed clashes between two rival groups in South Sudan, the latest in a series of bloody ethnic clashes.

Sudanese officials said on Monday that tribal fighters from the Murle ethnic group attacked a camp in the Akobo area of the region's swampy Jonglei state, where oil exploration is under way, on Sunday morning.

'At least 100 women and children, 50 men and 11 SPLA [soldiers from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army] are being buried by the riverside this morning,' Goi Jooyul Yol, the Akobo commissioner, said in a statement on Monday.

Officials said most of the victims were from the Lou Nuer group, locked in a tribal war with the Murle that has already claimed over 700 lives this year in attacks and counter-attacks.

'We fear there may be more dead to find,' Yol said said from Bor, the capital of Jonglei.

'The situation in Akobo town is tense, and those fleeing the fighting are continuing to arrive into the town.'"

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