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UN calls on Khartoum to investigate school bombing incident

    NAIROBI

    Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for Children and Armed Conflict, on Tuesday called on all parties to the conflict in Sudan "to take measures to ensure that their forces do not attack civilian populations and sites". The call followed reports that 14 children and a teacher in the Nuba Mountains were killed, and 10 other children injured, when a bomb was dropped from an aircraft close to where lessons were underway. Otunnu also called on the government of Sudan to
    carry out "an urgent and full investigation" into the incident.

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