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The incident appeared to be part of the fallout from ongoing hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan over control of an oil town on their ill-defined border.
Last week, South Sudanese troops seized Heglig, which the Southerners call Panthou, sending Sudanese troops fleeing. The Khartoum government later claimed to have regained the town.
Witnesses and a number of newspapers said several hundred people shouting insults at the South Sudanese set fire to the church. Fire engines could not put out the fire, they added.
AP
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