Khartoum City, Sudan

Authorities in Sudan have deployed the police to restore calm following skirmishes between South Sudanese refugees and Sudanese in Al Kadru town – north of Khartoum, a South Sudanese activist has said

Activist Achol Malong police have been deployed to restore order after some young South Sudanese allegedly beat up a Sudanese man and robbed him of his phone on Friday evening.

She says the Sudanese man passed away after the incident, prompting the host community to retaliate against South Sudanese refugees in the Al Kadru area.

Activist Achol Malong says several homes including a school and a church were torched in the area after the killing of a Sudanese national during a robbery incident.

Achol told Eye Radio today that the clashes resulted in the death of three Sudanese.

“Some youth from South Sudan robbed a phone and killed the owner – a young man who was riding a motor bicycle. They fled the site, and the family of the deceased came and buried him. On Friday evening they [Sudanese] attacked the South Sudanese houses,” Achol Malong told Eye Radio.

“We have one issue here whenever any South Sudanese did anything they accused the whole South Sudanese community.

“The clashes continued from Friday evening until Saturday. We called the police to intervene and save the situation. Three Sudanese were killed during the clashes yesterday and another one was killed a day before.”

David Dok Gatwich, a resident of Al Kadru area says he has been displaced by the fighting.

“The causes of this incident are outlaws-South Sudanese youth. They quarreled among themselves and killed one of the Sudanese, which escalated the situation and his family attacked the area,” David Dok told Eye Radio.

“Many South Sudanese have been arrested from their homes and we do not know their location. It was not the government that caught them, but the citizens.

“The police came to the area, but they couldn’t do anything, and two of us were shot yesterday. We left our children and wives there and we ran away.”