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Thursday 9 May 2019 - 04:49

Bush fire guts four villages in South Sudan, kills 33

Story Code : 793114
A cultivator inspects her land damaged due to a dry spell in Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 12, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
A cultivator inspects her land damaged due to a dry spell in Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 12, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

The spokesman said in a statement late on Monday that 60 other people were in a critical condition after the fire on Sunday.

“The injured are receiving medication, which is not sufficient given the remote state of the area in which the incident has taken place," Ateny Wek Ateny said in a statement at the statehouse on Monday evening.

On Tuesday, Mathok Wal, Lol State's information minister, said the fire had also destroyed 138 houses in the villages in Korok East County and killed 10,000 cattle.
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