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Government plane bombs southern town of Rumbek

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    A Sudanese government Antonov dropped bombs on the town of Rumbek in Bahr el Ghazal region on Sunday, hitting the central market place and killing at least two civilians, humanitarian sources told IRIN on Tuesday. They said several more people were injured in the raid. Sudan Focal Point quoted independent observers as saying that similar raids were carried out on the village of Cueibet, northwest of Rumbek, and the villages of Liethnom and Lunyaker (all of them in Bahr el-Ghazal) the same day, causing injuries and damage to houses, but no deaths. Sudan Focal Point said it was clear that the government had resumed its policy of aerial bombardment of civilian targets. The raids follow the breakdown of a ceasefire in the region last month and the capture by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) of the garrison town of Gogrial, 220 km northwest of Rumbek. Each side has blamed the other for the resumption of hostilities.

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