Fighting in Sudan leaves at least 57 dead

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Clashes between militia and local government troops in a southern Sudan town killed at least 57 people and wounded nearly 100, a government official said Sunday.

More than two dozen of those killed in last week’s fighting in the volatile town of Malakal were civilians, said Riek Machar, the vice president of the southern Sudan government, according to the official Sudanese news agency, SUNA.

Machar said 15 of the dead were militia fighters and 16 belonged to Sudan’s armed forces.

He also said 94 were wounded, SUNA reported.