200 dead in tribal clashes in Sudan's Blue Nile state
About 200 people were killed in the tribal clashes that took place Wednesday and Thursday in Blue Nile State in South Sudan, a local official announced Saturday.
"About 200 people were killed" in three villages, "and some of the bodies have not been buried yet," said the Executive Director of the Wad Al-Mahi Local Council, Abdulaziz Al-Amin, calling on humanitarian organizations to help local authorities to bury the bodies.
On Friday, the governor of Blue Nile state declared a state of emergency in the state and gave security forces full powers to "stop" the tribal fighting.
A decree issued by Ahmed El-Omda Badi stated that he "declares a state of emergency throughout the Blue Nile region for a period of thirty days."
He also instructed local officials of the police, army, and intelligence services, as well as the Rapid Support Forces, to "intervene with all available means to stop the tribal fighting."
The director of Wad Al-Mahi Hospital, Abbas Musa, told AFP on Thursday that the tribal clashes resulted in the "killing of 150 people between children, women, old people and young people, most of whom died as a result of burning, and 86" others were wounded on Wednesday and Thursday in the area 500 kilometers from Khartoum.
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