Sudanese insurgents shell city on border
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October 9, 2012, Tuesday
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INSURGENTS shelled the main city of Sudan's oil-producing South Kordofan state near the border with South Sudan yesterday, both sides said, their first assault on the government stronghold since last year.
Fighting in the state has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and stoked tensions between Sudan and South Sudan since they split apart last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
Sudan's army spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid said the insurgents fired eight shells from about six kilometers outside Kadugli, the state capital, yesterday morning, killing one woman and wounding three other people.
He accused the rebels of targeting a conference of political leaders to be held in the city. "The infiltrators were targeting the Kadugli consultative conference ... but they failed to achieve that aim."
Rebel spokesman Arnu Lodi confirmed shelling the town. He said the bombardments were in retaliation for attacks on their positions, not a bid to derail the conference. "We have to fight back and of course to carry out our objective of removing the government," he said.
Khartoum accuses South Sudan of backing the rebels - known as the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North - who fought as part of the southern rebel army during the war. South Sudan denies the charge.
Fighting in the state has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and stoked tensions between Sudan and South Sudan since they split apart last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
Sudan's army spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid said the insurgents fired eight shells from about six kilometers outside Kadugli, the state capital, yesterday morning, killing one woman and wounding three other people.
He accused the rebels of targeting a conference of political leaders to be held in the city. "The infiltrators were targeting the Kadugli consultative conference ... but they failed to achieve that aim."
Rebel spokesman Arnu Lodi confirmed shelling the town. He said the bombardments were in retaliation for attacks on their positions, not a bid to derail the conference. "We have to fight back and of course to carry out our objective of removing the government," he said.
Khartoum accuses South Sudan of backing the rebels - known as the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North - who fought as part of the southern rebel army during the war. South Sudan denies the charge.
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