Christians Killed, Church Building Destroyed in Sudan Bombing

By C. J. Refsland on December 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

By Jeremy Reynalds

Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

KHARTOUM, SUDAN (ANS) — The Sudanese military in the last two weeks has bombed more non-Arab people in largely Christians areas of the Nuba Mountains – killing three Christians, destroying two relief agency structures and demolishing a Catholic Church building, sources said.

According to a story by Morning Star News, Dawla Angalo, 60, a member of the Catholic Church in Heiban, died in a Nov. 17 bombing of the town in South Kordofan state.

Sources told Morning Star News that she died on a road as she was being rushed to a hospital.

The bombing also killed 40-year-old Khamisa Kuku, whom a local source said was a Christian woman, in the attack on civilian homes and other non-military buildings.

Morning Star News reported the same bomb attack by a Russian-made Antonov airplane injured Mariam Hamdan (not Miraim Amdan as in one published report), 55, breaking both her legs and seriously wounding one of them, sources said.

Four Sudanese government bombs hit Al Reka village also on Nov. 17, killing Suliman Kuku, a 42-year-old Christian, area sources said. A 6-year-old girl unrelated to him who was injured in the attack, Nadia Tutu, is also a Christian, they said. Three houses including that of Kuku were destroyed in the bombing, according to online news portal Nuba Reports.

“It is very sad – we are losing our members,” said an area pastor who requested anonymity.

Morning Star News said an Antonov airplane dropped six bombs on the predominately Christian town of Heiban on Nov. 20, with three of them hitting the town’s crowded weekly market and one destroying the Catholic Church building.

Mohammod Idris, 25, and Stephen Yousif, 23, were wounded in the attack, according to Nuba Reports. An area source told Morning Star News they are Christians.

“They are targeting churches – they destroyed the Bible school last time, and now the Catholic Church,” said the pastor. Heiban Bible College was reduced to ashes on Feb. 1 from an Antonov plane bombing.