Gunmen from South Sudan have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighboring Ethiopia, a government official said on Wednesday. Murle bandits carried out the attack, they fled along with 43 children. The assailants haven’t crossed over to South Sudan yet,” Chany told Reuters, using a term for a local ethnic group. Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in a civil war since President Salva Kiir, fired his deputy Riek Machar in December 2013. However, regional governments have expressed fears that violence in South Sudan could spill over its borders into their own nations.

Source: Ethiopian News March 15, 2017 19:52 UTC