 Deadly fighting erupted on Saturday between rival factions of South Sudan's Vice President Rik Machaz's SPLA side that's according to his military spokesman. The clashes erupted after Machaz's rivals declared this week that they had deposed him as the head of the party and its military forces. Armed forces led by a rival general in the party, Simon Gatweck-Dual, had launched an attack on Machaz's men. Machaz's SPLA forces had killed two major generals and over 27 enemy soldiers while they had lost three men. The fighting could not be independently confirmed and there's no immediate response from Gatweck-Dual's side.