Rebels from the South Sudan Liberation Army accept attacked a boondocks in the oil-rich Unity Accompaniment and at atomic 75 humans accept died, the civic army has said.
Among the dead, nine were soldiers, 15 were civilians and at atomic 50 were rebels, an army agent told the BBC.
South Sudan became absolute in July afterwards a accord accord with Khartoum that concluded decades of civilian war.
Afterwards, some of the region's insubordinate movements addled deals with the government but several abide defiant.
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Both abandon produced broadly differing accounts of the amount of casualties afterwards the advance in Unity State, which happened in the aboriginal hours of the morning.
The SSLA say that they dead added than 700 soldiers in the attack. Rebels' claims that they are now in ascendancy of boondocks of Mayom accept been absolved by locals and officials.
On Friday, rebels from the South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) warned United Nations agents and aid workers to leave the state. This admonishing has now been continued to the adjacent Warrup state.
The rebels say they are angry adjoin corruption, abjection and the ascendancy of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the above rebels who now run South Sudan.
The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says that the SSLA's apostasy is decidedly acute because of its area as a lot of of South Sudan's oilfields - which annual for 98% of the new country's acquirement - are in Unity State.
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