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Gabriel claimed the ambush destroyed four military vehicles and nine private ones and killed more than 40 people including civilians "caught in crossfire".
Gunmen ambushed a convoy of buses and other vehicles travelling on a major highway in South Sudan on Thursday, killing at least 14 passengers and wounding 35, police said.
South Sudanese rebels said they had taken control of a town on the Ugandan border and killed 14 soldiers in the fighting, an account dismissed on Tuesday as "ridiculous and unfounded" by the government.
Street sweepers in Juba have cleaned up the blood and bullet casings after gun battles at the Presidential palace.
A heavily-armed Ugandan military convoy crossed into South Sudan to evacuate trapped citizens.
A ceasefire in South Sudan`s capital appeared to hold for a second straight day after an intense fighting.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Sunday at the request of the United States to discuss new fighting in Juba.
The violence came on the eve of the country's fifth anniversary of independence.
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