185 killed in Sudan tribal violence

ARMED tribesmen attacked a fishing village in south-east Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, leaving at least 185 people, most of them women and children, dead in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudan official said yesterday.

Tribal clashes in south Sudan over cattle and territory has left more than 1,000 people killed so far this year.

The violence is separate from the six-year-old conflict between rebels and government forces in Darfur, the vast western region of Sudan.