Gunmen kill 38 in south Sudan attacks-officials

JUBA, Sudan, Oct 19 (Reuters) Gunmen have killed 38 civilians including women and children in at least five attacks in southern Sudan, a regional government official said today.

''A group of armed men yesterday killed 38 people, among whom were women and children, and destroyed several cars on roads between Juba and the eastern bank of the Nile,'' South Sudan's Interior Minister Paul Mayom Akec told reporters in Juba.

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