John Garang student killed in car ambush – official

By Philip Thon Aleu

April 29, 2009 (BOR TOWN) – A student at John Garang de Mabior Institute of science and Technology in Bor is killed in a car ambush at Kor-Gana on Juba – Torit road, Institute official said today.

Samuel Magai Chol, a student at the faculty of Ecology was killed with another unidentified person Tuesday April 28 while traveling to Torit on a family visit, Dean of student David Malual Wuor told the Sudan Tribune Wednesday in Bor Town.

“It is a great lost to the family and well as the Institute. We extend our condolence to the grieved family and friends,” Malual Wuor said. Students at John Garagng Institute are on holidays as they await a new date for opening.

Khor-Gana (Gana River) is in Eastern Equatoria State where illegal arms owners carryout various assaults but go unreported. Insecurity has surged in Southern Sudan in recent months as communities rose against each other but roads ambushes are very rare.

A lot of AK47 guns remained at the hand of militia groups which refused to join the Sudan armed Forces or the SPLA after the signing of the 2005 peace agreement.

But the sources of the AK47 ammunitions remain a big question mark.

Governor of Lakes State Lt. Gen. Awet Akot told a news conference in Tonji South County in Warap State on Monday April 27 that some army officers in the Joint Integrated Units smuggle arms and ammunitions to local civilians in Southern Sudan.

Awet said he himself had caught two officers from the Sudan Armed Forces with two boxes of weapons locally made and sent to Juba.

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