Sudanese rebels detain six Bulgarians: Bulgarian foreign ministry

Six Bulgarians working with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) were detained by Sudanese rebels after their helicopter made an emergency landing in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan province, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said. The three-member crew of the helicopter and three officers of Sofia-based Heli Air, the carrier that operated it, were being detained, a ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday. The flight was scheduled from South Sudan to Khartoum. Fighting between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), which the ministry said was holding the Bulgarians, has increased in South Kordofan and Blue Nile provinces since peace talks collapsed in December.
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