Humanitarian workers make desperate call for international assistance as numbers of wounded and displaced people soar
The massacre in Bentiu, South Sudan, has shaken even hardened humanitarian workers. The UN's development and humanitarian coordinator, Toby Lanzer, called it perhaps the most shocking circumstances he had faced. Civilians were killed in the town's main hospital, in a Catholic church and in the Kali-Ballee mosque. A week after the fighting, bodies still litter the streets.
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