Hundreds of Muslims stormed a Christian church complex used by southerners in Khartoum at the weekend, , raising fears that recent clashes between Sudan and South Sudan were stoking ethnic tensions in the city, Reuters reported, citing witneses.
The attackers ransacked buildings, knocked down walls and burned Bibles on Saturday, Youssef Matar, secretary general of the Presbyterian Evangelical Church told Reuters.
South Sudan, where most follow Christian and traditional African beliefs, declared independence from Sudan in July after decades of civil war with the overwhelmingly Muslim north.
But hundreds of thousands of southerners, and people from regions close to the shared border, remain in Khartoum, many of them in a state of legal limbo.
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