5 herders killed in attack near Heglig in West Kordofan

Five members of the pastoralist Misseriya Arab tribe were killed and six others injured in an attack last Thursday on an area south of the oil-producing Heglig area in Sudan’s West Kordofan State.

Five members of the pastoralist Misseriya Arab tribe were killed and six others injured in an attack last Thursday on an area south of the oil-producing Heglig area in Sudan’s West Kordofan State.

Saleh Juma, a leader of the Misseriya tribe, told Radio Tamazuj that an armed groups attacked herders at a place called Kahraba (‘Electricity’) or Al-Har (‘Hot’), south of Heglig.

“A group of SPLA and armed groups from there attacked us in ‘Electricity’ in West Kordofan… and killed five people and wounded six and took their cattle,” he said.

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