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At least 24 people have been killed in clashes in the troubled southern Sudanese state of Jonglei in recent days, a military spokesman said on Friday. Fighting first broke out on Monday in the Nuer settlement of Koul-Anyang after a quarrel between two men, but soon escalated and led to the deaths of nine people, said Major General Kuol Diem Kuol.

"It was a normal quarrel between two people, but each of their villages became involved," said Kuol of the southern Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA), adding that it took place in the New Fangak region of Jonglei. "Then fighting began again on the Thursday, and this time it was more bloody," he said, adding that while originally between people from the Nuer ethnic group, the fighting later drew in Dinka people who supported one side. Some 140 people have been killed during clashes in the south's Warrap state this month.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010


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