ELEVEN people were killed and 15 others wounded when a landmine exploded under their car Thursday morning on the outskirts of Wau, the main town in Bahr el-Ghazal region in southern Sudan, the Suna news agency reported.
Suna quoted a statement from the state governments in the region of accusing the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) of planting the mine, thus violating an agreement on protection of civilians in the war-ravaged southern Sudan.
The car was carrying local officials and other people for a visit to a food security scheme outside Wau, the agency said.
The commissioner of Tonj Province was among those killed, while the commissioner of Warab Province was among the wounded, the agency said.
It quoted the statement as urging the United Nations and other international organisations to pressure the SPLA into halting such ”inhumane activities.”- AFP
