Sudan: Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North rebels shelled Lagawa town in south wounding 2 soldiers
Sudan’s army said on Wednesday a rebel group that has refused to sign a key peace deal had shelled a town in the southern state of West Kordofan, wounding two officers.
The reported artillery strikes in Lagawa, some 580 km southwest of the capital Khartoum, come after ethnic clashes last week in a land dispute near the town left several people dead.
“Forces belonging to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North launched indiscriminate shellings,” the armed forces said in a statement.
It said the attacks, which took place on Tuesday, smashed into a market and two neighborhoods in Lagawa and wounded two members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The army said rebel troops then launched an assault, but soldiers were able “to force them to withdraw.”