More than 600 Sudanese nationals who have been wounded in the conflict in South Sudan are being treated in Wau Teaching Hospital.

A Western Bahr el Ghazal state official says the wounded are Sudanese citizens who were doing business in Bor, Bentui and Malakal towns.

The state Minister of Information, Derek Alfred Uya, said that most of them sustained gunshot wounds.

“We have received many people who are injured. Moreover we received over 600 Sudanese, Darfurians, especially those merchants who were trading in Bor, Bentiu and Malakal. They have been wounded. We have also received around 240 wounded army soldiers. They were from Bor, Bentiu and Malakal. They were brought to Western Bahr el Ghazal state,” he told Eye Radio.

The minister said the 240 soldiers are receiving treatment in the military hospital and in Wau Teaching Hospital