World Arab Gunmen Kill 8 Worshippers in Sudan

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Arab tribesmen shot dead eight ethnic minority villagers as they prayed in a revenge killing in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, a medic and a tribal leader said on Monday.

Two children were among five villagers wounded in the Sunday evening attack on a mosque in Arzini in West Darfur.

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"There are eight bodies in the mortuary," a medic from the main hospital in West Darfur state capital Geneina told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"All have been killed by bullets to the head or chest," he said.

A prominent West Darfur tribal leader said the villagers were from the Masalit minority.

"There was a dispute between an Arab and a Masalit man over a payment in the local market yesterday (Sunday)," Sultan Saad Baherddin told AFP by telephone from Geneina hospital.

"In the ensuing quarrel, the Arab lashed the Masalit man with a whip, and he then stabbed the Arab to death with a knife."

Arab supporters of the dead man later gathered and demanded compensation from the villagers of Arzini, Baherddin said.

"When the villagers failed to raise the hefty compensation during the day, gunmen attacked them in the evening when they were praying in the village mosque," he said.

"The armed Arab men just started shooting the villagers. Eight villagers have been killed in the attack."

Source: DailyMail
 
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