The Buzz | South Sudan says raid that killed 127 was ethnically based

South Sudan’s government vowed action after more than 127 civilians were killed on a southern highway over the weekend by armed groups seen as targeting members of the country’s largest ethnic group.
Gunmen killed passengers traveling to South Sudan’s capital, Juba, on Oct. 8 because they belonged to the Dinka community. The three-truck convoy was carrying more than 200 people who’d left Yei town because of recent violence and were seeking sanctuary, he said.
A Dinka man was also separated from other passengers and killed during an attack on three buses on another highway on Monday.