Sudan Plane Bombs Ugandan Army Detachment in Southern Sudan

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Sudan Plane Bombs Ugandan Army Detachment in Southern Sudan

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A Sudanese military plane has dropped three bombs on the Ugandan army detachment at Palotaka in southern Sudan, injuring seriously three Ugandan soldiers, local daily the New Vision reported Thursday.

The bombing on Tuesday afternoon is the first incident since March when the two countries signed a protocol allowing the Ugandan army to hunt for the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in southern Sudan and later restored full diplomatic relations severed in 1995.

Ugandan army spokesman Shaban Bantariza told press that UgandanDefense Minister Amama Mbabazi on Wednesday protested to his Sudanese counterpart "who regretted the incident and blamed it on his pilots having missed their targets."

"It was an Antonov plane which dropped three bombs directly on our troops at Palotaka. We are concerned since we are now allies,"said Bantariza, who is also the military assistant to the defense minister.

"We are concerned because we have liaison officers working on both sides who provide coordinate locations of both armies," he said.

Surajjudin Mohammed, charge d'affaires of the Sudanese embassy in Kampala said that he had no knowledge on the Sudanese army bombing Ugandan army positions, adding that "I am sure of our forces bombing the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) positions around Palotaka."

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