South Sudanese run for cover as Sudan bombs border area Goran Tomasevic / Reuters A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army looks up at warplanes as he lies on the ground to take cover beside a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona, near Bentiu, South Sudan, on April 23, 2012. A woman runs along a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012. Smoke rises after the Sudanese air force fired a missile during an air strike in Rubkona on April 23, 2012. Reuters reports - Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan on Monday, killing three people near a southern oil town, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field. A Reuters reporter at the scene, outside the oil town of Bentiu, said he saw a fighter aircraft drop two bombs near a river bridge between Bentiu and the neighboring town of Rubkona. Weeks of border fighting between the two neighbors have brought the former civil war foes closer to a full-blown war than at any time since the South seceded in July. Video: George Clooney calls crisis in Sudan 'real disaster' A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army walks in a market destroyed in an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012. Michael Onyiego / AP A South Sudanese soldier has a bullet removed from his leg in the Rubkona Military Hospital on April 22, 2012.