{"id":46761,"date":"2025-05-03T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46761"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:49:51","slug":"at-least-seven-killed-20-injured-in-bombings-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46761","title":{"rendered":"At least seven killed, 20 injured in bombings in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, May 3  &#8211; At least seven people were killed and 20 injured and the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the country&#8217;s Fangak county were destroyed in bombings, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSF said a bomb was dropped on the pharmacy, burning it to the ground and damaging the hospital, followed by another drone bomb on Old Fangak, a town in the Greater Upper Nile region, where at least seven people were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Old Fangak Hospital is the only hospital in Fangak county, serving a population of over 110,000 people who already had extremely limited access to healthcare,&#8221; MSF said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack or what the motive was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government and army spokespeople could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan has formally been at peace since a 2018 peace deal ended a five-year civil war between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/kenya-sends-former-pm-odinga-defuse-south-sudan-crisis-2025-03-28\/\">March arrest<\/a>&nbsp;of Machar on charges of trying to stir up a rebellion has sparked international concern that conflict could flare anew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: JOHANNESBURG, May 3 &#8211; At least seven people were killed and 20 injured and the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the country&#8217;s Fangak county were destroyed in bombings, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Saturday. MSF said a bomb was dropped on the pharmacy, burning it to the ground and damaging the hospital, followed by another drone bomb on Old Fangak, a town in the Greater Upper Nile region, where at least seven people were killed. &#8220;Old Fangak Hospital is the only hospital in Fangak county, serving a population of over 110,000 people who already had extremely&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46763,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions\/46763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}