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South Sudan army ‘shoots down’ UN chopper

Friday, December 21, 2012 13:32
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SOUTH Sudan’s army has shot down a UN helicopter killing all four crew on board, a United Nations spokesman says.
The helicopter was hit on a reconnaissance flight over a troubled part of the world’s newest country where the government has already tried to stop the UN and rights groups investigating allegations of massacres and other abuses.

Deputy UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters in New York the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) had admitted to the United Nations that it had hit the MI-8 helicopter.

The helicopter was in the Likuangole district of troubled Jonglei state in the east of South Sudan, which became independent in July last year after splitting from Sudan.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/wor…z2Fif9sxbR



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