Clashes in Rumbek, a town in South Sudan's central Lakes State, have reportedly killed about 71 people, including four soldiers, the caretaker government said on Friday; the toll is still unverified. Witnesses told AFP that a group from outside the town briefly seized control before withdrawing when police and army reinforcements arrived, and officials say security forces now hold Rumbek. The violence adds to recurring communal fighting in the world's youngest country, where President Salva Kiir recently dissolved the transitional government (set up under a 2018 peace deal that ended a civil war that killed about 400,000 people) ahead of planned first elections since independence in 2011.