South Sudan says Sudan has bombed Northern Bahr al Ghazal state today and yesterday.
Authorities said four people were killed and nine wounded in bombings that hit Aweil West County, while another bombing took place today in Aweil North.
“South Sudan for the last 3 days has been sustaining aerial bombardment in its northern State of Northern Bahr al Ghazal, and particularly in Aweil West County areas of Mayom Deng Angok, Akuak-Rial and Nyinboli,” presidential spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny said in a statement.
Northern Bahr al Ghazal Acting Governor Salva Chol Ayat confirmed the incidents, saying the planes that carried out the attack appeared to have come from the direction of the Sudan border, Radio Miraya reported.
Ateny said Sudan is the only possible culprit. “The attack is presumed to be coming from neighboring Sudan, since no any other country that borders South Sudan has the history of this type of unprovoked attacks.”
On Tuesday, a similar Antonov bombing blamed on Sudan Armed Forces was reported in Raja County, Western Bahr al Ghazal state.
Ateny condemned the attacks and called on the international community to do the same.
For its part, Sudan’s military denied bombing South Sudanese territory.
“Sudanese military jets don’t enter the airspace of any foreign country without permission,” Sudan’s army spokesman al-Sawarmi Khaled told Bloomberg news agency in response to the allegations.