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Press TV
All the 25,000 people, living in a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region, have fled amid fighting between armed militia groups and Sudanese government forces, the UN says.

The unrest began on August 1 when Abdelrahman Mohammed Eissa, a district chief, was shot dead in Kutum during a carjacking attempt.

“UN reports indicate that the entire population of the Kassab IDP camp -- 25,000 people -- fled because of the fighting," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest weekly bulletin.

In an interview with AFP last Tuesday, Darfur's top official Eltigani Seisi said a total of eight people had been killed, including the two soldiers, two police officers, and four camp residents.

"There is an ethnic and tribal polarization in Darfur," Seisi said. "It has started with the war."

The OCHA says it is not possible to determine the number of the casualties.

The UN estimates that as many as 300,000 people have been killed and almost three million displaced since the Darfur conflict broke out in 2003.