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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Two children were killed and 34 people injured when a soldier from the wounded heroes unit lobbed a grenade at partygoers in the wee hours of Saturday in Mariem West Payam in Aweil West County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, local officials said.<\/p>\n

16 of the injured are children between 11 and 16 years of age.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s police spokesman, Captain Guot Guot Akol, told Radio Tamazuj on Saturday that the incident happened when a group of locals held a trans night party.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the information we received from there, there was one personnel from the wounded heroes who exploded the bomb (grenade) while he was drunk,\u201d Capt. Guot said. \u201c34 people, including two police officers, were badly wounded and two small children have passed on.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to sources, the attacker has not yet been arrested but security operatives said they were monitoring him closely. The Aweil West County commissioner, Chok Dut Chok, confirmed the attack but said the revelers initially reported that it was a generator that had exploded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people were dancing at a party at night and the information I got from them (locals) was that a generator had burst (sic),\u201d Commissioner Dut said. \u201cThey did not report officially that it was a hand grenade.\u201d<\/p>\n

A medical worker at the local health facility who preferred anonymity said that they first received about six patients in the early hours of Saturday morning but that the number of the patients injured in the attack kept increasing in the admission wards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came this morning (Saturday), there were six wounded people but now we have a big number in the admission wards,\u201d the health worker said.<\/p>\n

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