Sudan claims killed 400 South Sudanese in Heglig battle
- Published: 23 Apr 2012 at 05.48
- Online news: World
South Sudan's army said on Sunday it had completed its pullout from an oil field seized from Sudan, ending a deadly standoff which forced thousands of civilians to flee.
A wounded soldier of the South-Sudan's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rests outside the Rubkona Military Hospital in Rubkona, South Sudan. Sudanese forces killed hundreds of South Sudanese during a days-long battle for Sudan's most important oil field Heglig, a senior official said Sunday.
South Sudanese officials said the withdrawal from Heglig had been ordered to avert a return to all-out war, but they accused Khartoum of air strikes against the departing troops.
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