Over 150 killed in South Sudan fighting

July 09, 2016 21:17

Soldiers have taken scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan's capital, reports said, after gun battles broke out across the city on the eve of the country's fifth independence anniversary.

The fighting on Friday began outside the presidential compound as President Salva Kiir was meeting with first vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar and soon spread through the city.An Al Jazeera correspondent later saw bodies of soldiers on the lawn in the compound.

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