News Article by AFP posted on November 27, 2000 at 10:45:17: EST (-5 GMT)
Sudanese planes intensify bombings in southern Sudan: NGO
NAIROBI, Nov 27 (AFP) - Sudanese government planes bombed
Twic
County in southern Sudan's Bahr el-Ghazal region over two days
last
week, demolishing part of a missionary school, a local aid
agency
said here Monday.
In statement sent to AFP, Sudan Production Aid (SUPRAID), a
member of the
UN-led umbrella agency Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS),
said that a Sudanese
military plane made three bombing passes over
Panlit village in Bahr
el-Ghazal's Twic County at 11:00 am (0800
GMT) on Friday.
Fourteen bombs were dropped in all, one of which fell within
El-Obied
diocese-sponsored and administered Panlit Missionary
School, demolishing two
of its classrooms.
Another round hit a herd of grazing cattle, killing 73 cows
instantly, the
statement said.
It said that although no human losses have been reported, most
of the 700
children at the school fled to the bush or their
villages. The school has yet
to account for most of the missing
children.
The population has been scared away from Twic County's main
Turalei
locality and closed down their shops on Sunday, as people
Shortly after noon on Saturday, anothing bomber hit the village
of Anyiel,
two kilometres (one mile) east of Turalei.
Before dropping four bombs on the village, many Sudanese
military jet
fighters flew for a long time over Western Upper Nile
region and over Aweng
and Ajak Payam, east of Twic County,
apparently not to drop bombs, but to
scare the local population,
before the bomber struck.
It was the first time in the 17-year war between the rebel Sudan
People's
Liberation Army (SPLA) and successive regimes in Khartoum
that Twic County
has been bombed for two days in a row, the locals
noted.