Umm Dafuq , May 26(Darfur 24)
Eyewitnesses reported on Monday that five Sudanese herders and miners were killed and five others injured in an attack carried out by gunmen yesterday, Sunday, in the Angleise area of the Central African Republic.
Eyewitnesses told Darfur 24 that the incident occurred in the Angleze area of Birao province, bordering Sudan, following the killing of a member of the Qalla tribe from the Central African Republic.
They indicated that the Qalla tribespeople tracked down the perpetrators. The Qalla tribemen attacked Sudanese herders in the area, accusing them of committing the crime.
Eyewitnesses explained that the incident resulted in the deaths of four herders and the injury of five others, while three other local residents of the Central African Republic were killed and five others injured.
A citizen from the Sudanese locality of Umm Dafuq told Darfur 24 that the incident escalated between the two sides the following day, when the Qalla tribemen killed two Sudanese miners returning from a gold mine in the town of Andha, in addition to a third herder.
A Darfur 24 correspondent in Umm Dafuq reported that three of the wounded were transported from inside the Central African Republic to the Sudanese Umm Dafuq Hospital.
He pointed out that these incidents led to security tensions in the border area between the two countries.
Thousands of Sudanese herders travel from the Darfur region to the livestock resort areas inside the neighboring Central African Republic in search of pasture and water, then return to the country during the rainy season.