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More than 50 people have been killed in two days of clashes between rebel groups and soldiers in south Sudan's Upper Nile state, an army spokesman said.
Philip Aguer, spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), said on Monday that militia forces loyal to the rebel leader George Athor clashed with military forces, killing 56 people.
Aguer did not specify which side the deaths were on.
The fighting comes just four months before the region is due to become independent.
The south is expected to secede on July 9 after southerners overwhelmingly voted to declare independence from the north in a January referendum – a vote promised in a 2005 peace accord that ended decades of civil war between north and south.
But a wave of mass killings in recent weeks has raised fears for the stability of Sudan's oil-producing south and the contested Abyei border region.
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Sudan People's Liberation Army soldiers stand to attention at a ceremony in January.
Al-Jazeera
