Sudanese Clashes in Oil-Producing State Kill Six, UN Says

Six people died in clashes between the Sudanese government army and Southern Sudanese forces in the north’s only oil-producing state, the United Nations said.

Fighting continued today for a second day, UN spokesman Kouider Zerrouk said by phone from Khartoum, Sudan’s capital. The bodies of four policemen and two civilians were brought to the police hospital in Kadugli, the capital of the border state of Southern Kordofan, he said.