Youths kill 15, including Boma County commissioner in South Sudan

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Jikany Nuer White Army fighters holds their weapons in Upper Nile State, South Sudan on February 10, 2014. PHOTO | REUTERS

Young men shot dead 15 people in South Sudan's eastern Pibor region, including a county commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, amid a rise in local conflict ahead of a national election due at the end of the year.

A civil war that erupted two years after the country won independence from Sudan caused hundreds of thousands of deaths between 2013 and 2018.