GUNNED DOWN.

SPLM shot down Antonov aircraft of the government army after the bombing of the town of Kauda


11-08-2012 08:36 PM



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He rebels in the state of South Kordofan, Sudan's troubled yesterday they had shot down a government plane from Antonov model near the border with the state of the south after the raid on the village killed one person.



Arno said Nicothelo Lodi, SPLM spokesman, told Asharq Al-Awsat, that artillery belonging to his forces shot down «Antonov of the Sudanese Air Force yesterday evening east of White Lake (Gao). He said the plane was on a bombing in the areas of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state before you artillery SPLA shooting down, pointing out that military aircraft dropped 8 bombs in the city of Kauda, a stronghold of the People's Army, and in the city Heiban, led to the killing of a citizen and wounding others, and in Kabila village led to the death of a child. He said that a number of other bombs landed in town Slara, stressing that his forces succeeded in destroying raft belonging to the government forces, and that they had killed 10 soldiers and wounded 18 others, and one of the movement's fighters were killed in the battle and two other soldiers were wounded. He said that his forces captured military equipment and SUV on the road link between Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan state and Dilling state's second largest city. He added that the rest of the government troops fled into the city of Dilling. Could not be verified Sudanese army spokesman about the fact bring down the plane.



Lodi considered that the repetition of Khartoum linking the SPLM in the north with the state of South Sudan throwing dust in the eyes. He said the war in South Kordofan started before the independence of Juba. It was the first meeting between the states of Sudan and South Sudan have failed the day before yesterday in Juba, which was devoted to follow up the implementation agreement security arrangements between the two countries, where demands Khartoum state of South Sudan disengagement between them and the SPLM in the north, but the southern government rejects link between them and the movement in the north, and considers that the issue concerns the north state.