There were random gunshots Monday on the outskirts of Mayom County in South Sudanโs oil-rich Unity State, where rebels clashed with the army on Saturday.
The weekend incident was the bloodiest rebel fighting since the July independence, civilians on the ground said.
South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) rebels, formerly led by Peter Gatdet, attacked Mayom in the early hours of Saturday, and over 80 were killed in the subsequent clash with the regular forces.
โThere were heavy guns firing in the forest,โ Mr Peter Gargwin, a victim of the fighting who said he lost one of his relatives, said.
โThere is still maybe fighting there,โ he said.
Gatdet struck a deal with the government recently and returned to Juba.
Some of Mr Gatdetโs senior officers, who rejected the deal and accused him of accepting bribes from Juba, were behind the Saturday violence, according to the Unity State Information minister, Mr Gideon Gatpan.
Mr Gatpan said Monday โthe army is still following up with those renegades in their hideouts and we have no serious incidentโ.
He asserted there was calm in Mayom which, together with the neighbouring Mankien County, have been apparent strongholds and hideouts for the rebels since March.
