JUBA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 people have been killed and scores wounded following rival community clashes over the weekend in South Sudan's western Gok state, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said Monday.
"On Saturday, UNMISS received reports that 25 civilians were killed and 27 wounded when members of the Waat and Ayiel sub-sections of the Dinka Gok clashed in Cueibet County," a UNMISS official who did not wanted to be identified told Xinhua in Juba .
He added that the UN mission is planning to conduct a patrol in Cueibet to assess the situation, and that the South Sudan army has been deployed to the area in an attempt to contain the situation.
The war-torn country has since the outbreak of violence in December 2013, been experiencing rival deadly community clashes driven by local rivalries over local grazing resources and animals that have tended to involve predominantly pastoral communities.
In May, the UNMISS and government helped broker a peace agreement between the Dinka and Murle ethnic groups that inhabit the north eastern Jonglei and Boma states respectively near the Ethiopian border following violent clashes amid child abduction and cattle theft.
South Sudan descended into violence in December 2013 after political dispute between President Kiir and his former deputy Machar led to fighting that pitied mostly Dinka ethnic soldiers loyal to Kiir against Machar's Nuer ethnic group.
The 2015 peace agreement to end the violence was again violated in July 2016 when the rival factions resumed fighting in the capital forcing Machar to flee into exile.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions that have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
