Sudan troops enter Abyei, 14 dead

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KADUGLI, May 3 (AFP): A heavily armed Sudanese military convoy entered the flashpoint border district of Abyei, sparking clashes that left up to 14 people dead, its chief administrator and a UN spokesman said Tuesday. The fighting broke out Sunday when a Sudanese army major insisted on entering the disputed territory after the police tried to stop his convoy of six landcruisers mounted with machine guns and more than 200 troops, administrator Deng Arop Kuol told AFP. "They killed a local police sergeant from the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army-the southern armed forces). I think the UN recovered another 11 bodies. It was a violent clash," said the southern-nominated official. A UN spokesman confirmed the deadly clashes on Sunday, saying a peacekeeping patrol had found 14 bodies, after initially being denied access to the area by an angry crowd.