U.N. says peacekeeping base in South Sudan attacked, deaths reported

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations peacekeeping base in South Sudan's Jonglei state was attacked on Thursday and the body has received reports that some people have been killed, Deputy U.N. Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said. "Our base in Akobo, Jonglei state, was attacked and we have reports that lives are lost. South Sudanese government troops battled to regain control of a flashpoint town and sent forces to quell fighting in a vital oil-producing area on Thursday, the fifth day of a conflict that has deepened ethnic divisions in the two-year-old nation. The conflict, which has so far killed as many as 500 people according to local reports received by the United Nations, has alarmed South Sudan's neighbors.

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