Sudan 'bombs refugees' in South Sudan's Unity state

On Thursday the 10^th of November an Antonov bomber dropped five bombs on the South Sudanese area of Yida, hitting a refugee camp of nearly 21,000 people. Some of them were northern Sudanese who had crossed the border since the rebellion in Sudan began.

Great speculation has occurred as to what happened once the bombs were dropped. According to an aid worker the bombs landed by an air strip, a school and on a market. The commissioner of local Pariang County, Miabek Lang, told reporters that 12 people had been killed and 20 people were wounded. However, other reporters in the area said there were no casualties.

A BBC reporter said a UN helicopter, carrying food aid, settled onto a makeshift landing zone at the camp as there was a deep and terrifying thud of a nearby explosion. A large plane was spotted heading to the north. Several residents of the refugee camp told him it was an Antonov plane, often used by the Sudanese government as a makeshift bomber.

While the two nations continue to discuss how to split lucrative oil revenues and the fate of the contested region Abyei, a spreading rebellion inside Sudan has prompted the Sudanese government to accuse the south of providing military support to the rebels.