3 July 2001

Six people were killed and several more wounded on Sunday 24 June when a Government of Sudan plane bombed a strictly civilian area of the town of Raga in south-west Sudan. Amongst those killed was a mother who died clutching her baby to her breast. Both her baby and her oldest son were also killed.

Earlier in the month four more civilians including one child were also killed and a church school hit in other bombing raids on Raga. The Islamic extremist Government of Sudan is widely accused of deliberately targeting civilians, hospitals and churches in an effort to demoralise the mainly Christian and animist people of South Sudan in the ongoing civil war.

(report provided by The Barnabas Fund)