[Tripoli Post] Sudanese warplanes bombed a UN peacekeepers' base, damaging it but causing no casualties in the first such attack since a recent escalation of fighting with South Sudan, reports by ADP indicate.
The area's information minister, Gideon Gatpan said that bombing raids on Sunday also killed nine civilians elsewhere in South Sudan's Unity border state, adding that bombs were dropped near the oil-producing state's capital Bentiu, as well as in the village of Mayom, some 60 kilometres to the west.
Gatpan said that in Mayom seven non-combatants were killed and 14 maimed. Two fighter jets released eight bombs east of Bentiu and two bombs fell inside the UN camp in Mayom destroying a generator and a radio. Others fell in villages around Bentiu, where two people were killed.
UN peacekeeping mission front man Kouider Zerrouk confirmed the attack on the small base, but said "there were no casualties, no one was maimed".
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