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(Refiles to clarify denial in headline that foreigners helping
South Sudan forces)
JUBA, April 28 (Reuters) – South Sudan’s army said that
three foreigners arrested by Sudan near a disputed border area
were not helping its forces, contrary to accusations by
Khartoum.
“That is rubbish and just a lie,” the spokesman for South
Sudan’s army (SPLA), Philip Aguer, said.
Aguer said SPLA sources in Bentiu, the capital of South
Sudan’s Unity State, told him that a U.N. truck had got lost in
the disputed border area and were “caught by the Sudanese Armed
Forces”.
“The humanitarian truck … should have been allowed free
passage,” Aguer said.
(Reporting by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Louise Ireland)
