A minimum of 7 individuals were eliminated and 20 hurt and the last staying medical facility and drug store in South Sudan’s Fangak county were damaged in battles, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres stated on Saturday.
MSF stated a bomb was dropped on the drug store, burning it to the ground and harming the medical facility, followed by another drone bomb on Old Fangak, a town in the Greater Upper Nile area, where a minimum of 7 individuals were eliminated.
” Old Fangak Healthcare Facility is the only medical facility in Fangak county, serving a population of over 110,000 individuals who currently had very restricted access to health care,” MSF stated in a declaration.
It was not right away clear who performed the attack or what the intention was.
Dispute in South Sudan
Federal government and army spokespeople might not right away be grabbed remark.
South Sudan has actually officially been at peace given that a 2018 peace offer ended a five-year civil war in between forces faithful to President Salva Kiir and those faithful to Very first Vice President Riek Machar.
Nevertheless, the March arrest of Machar on charges of attempting to stimulate a disobedience has actually stimulated global issue that dispute might flare once again.
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