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Sudanese government troops have killed at least 40 rebels and wounded many more in a new offensive in the country's troubled Darfur region, a military spokesman was quoted as saying. Captain Khalid Sawarmy said the rebels were killed during fighting in the evening, when Army forces attacked joint positions of two rebel groups the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement. Three soldiers also died and 13 were wounded in the fighting, Sawarmy said, according to media. |