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Church condemns bombing raids in Eastern Equatoria

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    Government of Sudan aircraft bombed two villages and a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Eastern Equatoria on Sunday, 26 August, the Sudan Catholic Information Office (SCIO) reported on Tuesday, 28 August. A spokesman from Torit Diocese said that four houses were destroyed and one person seriously injured after Antonov aircraft dropped a total of 14 bombs on the IDP camp at Ngaluma, and the villages of Ikotos and Hiyala, the agency stated in a press release. Church officials were quoted as saying that continued bombings had displaced large numbers of villagers, and left them vulnerable to food insecurity. “The continued, deliberate bombardment of innocent civilians in southern Sudan continues to disrupt the little peace that some areas in the war-weary region have,” the SCIO quoted [unnamed] officials as saying. None of the villages bombed on Sunday contained military installations, they added.

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