A least five people were killed and several houses burned during clashes between government forces and armed men at Bisselia area in Wau County of South Sudan’s Western Bahr al Ghazal State, a senior opposition member said.
Peter Tingo, a member of the SPLM-IO advance team in Juba, told Radio Tamazuj that clashes erupted between their forces and an armed group stationed in Bisselia and Buseri areas to the west of Wau town.
"What happened is that there was a group of three soldiers riding motorcycles in Bisselia, when they arrived in the area of al-Daso, they met with innocent youths, so they stopped their motorcycles and ran after those youths," he said.
"They shot at those youths, they shot two among them, after a short distance the opposition forces knew what happened and the clash repeated between them," he added.
"There are casualties, they killed citizens and innocent youths, so this is what had happened, there is information that the three soldiers who were riding motorcycles were killed," said Tingo.
