JUBA: Ugandan rebels desperate for supplies attacked a camp for Darfuri displaced persons in south Sudan, killing five people, the region’s army said yesterday.

The attack raised fears that the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), infamous for abducting children and brutally maiming its victims, is moving towards troubled Darfur.

Any LRA presence in Darfur would add to the chaotic mix of armed groups roaming the region, terrorising aid and commercial convoys and hundreds of thousands of Darfuris who fled to makeshift camps.

“The attack happened on the 21st (Oct)... targeting the displaced people from Darfur in a camp,” south Sudan’s army spokesman Kuol Diem Kuol said, adding the attack was in Western Bahr Al Ghazal state which has a long border with Darfur. Kuol said three police guarding the camp and two Darfuris were killed. “A number of people were abducted,” he added.