Unidentified assailants kill WFP driver in South Sudan
June 29, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – Unknown gunmen killed today a Ugandan driver in an ambush in southern Sudan, bringing to five the number of WFP-contracted drivers murdered in the region this year.
Muzamil Ramadan Sida, 28, shot and killed on the Juba-Yei road in the evening of 27 June after he delivered food to a WFP warehouse in Juba, the U.N. World Food Programme announced.
His assistant escaped after steering the truck to a stop 300 metres from the attack site. The gunmen followed the truck and took the driver’s personal belongings.
Daniela Owen, WFP’s coordinator for South Sudan condemned the “senseless killing” of the driver saying such “attacks are completely unacceptable.”
Sida’s body was returned to Koboko, Uganda, yesterday.
His death followed the killing of a driver and his assistant in April and two drivers in March. Both of those incidents were in Unity State, South Sudan.
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biarawieu
Unidentified assailants kill WFP driver in South Sudan
I want to say to mr reporter please don,t give any wrong reported to the public. you don,t say unidentified gunmen, to me this driver has been killed by Kony and Dr Machar they are one playing their game around south Sudan. same to what happen to western Equatoria last month reported as all known in mind LRA is alway searching for food.Biar M Bul