Sudanese warplanes launched their first attack on a major South Sudanese town on Thursday, with five bombs dropped on the capital of the oil-producing Unity border state, Southern officials said.
“They dropped bombs in Bentiu town - apparently they were aiming for a bridge,” South Sudan’s deputy information minister Atem Yaak Atem told AFP.
Bombs were dropped at dawn targeting a strategic bridge on the edge of Bentiu, which lies about 60 kilometres from the frontier, on the third straight day of violence.