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SPLM/A claims destruction of oil convoy

    NAIROBI

    The SPLM/A has claimed to have ambushed a military convoy in Western Upper Nile and killed more than 200 government troops. In a statement, the SPLM/A said the convoy, attacked on the road between Wang Kai and Mayom in Unity (Wahdah) State, had been “escorting equipment for one of the several oil companies” operating in the southern.

    According to the statement, fighting lasted over five hours and resulted in the “complete destruction of the convoy”. Two hundred and forty-four government soldiers were killed and the remainder “scattered in bushes”, it added.

    The spokesman for the Sudanese embassy in Nairobi, Muhammad Dirdiery, told IRIN that the claims by the SPLM/A were “totally baseless”. He said there had been a “small skirmish” in that part of the country, but that very few people had been involved. He added that the area in which the skirmish occurred was a long way from any of the oilfields in the region.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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