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SPLM claims government bombing killed civilians

    NAIROBI

    The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) on Monday claimed four civilians were killed in the government bombing of two relief centres, "with no presence of soldiers of the SPLA", in Loka and Lainya, Yei county, on Saturday.

    A press statement from SPLM spokesman Dr Samson Kwaje said the bombings "made a mockery" of the government's stated ceasefire and had driven the population of the centres into nearby forests with neither food nor medicines, as if "deliberately planned in order to depopulate all SPLM-administered territories".

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