Administrator killed in South Sudan’s Wau county
August 3, 2015 (WAU) – Unknown gunmen have on Sunday shot dead two people in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state’s capital, Wau, including an administrator.
The administrator of Mboro Payam, Natale John Hassan, and a police man identified as Yona Francis, who was working as a security guard at Eyat road Construction Company in Wau died instantly. The attack took place at around 2pm on Sunday in Gokazi Boma [village] within Mboro Payam [sub-district] in Wau county [district] after the administrator and a chief were returning from a funeral place.
The newly elected Wau county paramount chief, William Kamillio Gwage Mboro, who was also wounded at his leg in the incident and now admitted at Wau teaching hospital, said they could not identify the killers who vanished into the forest after the shooting.
Speaking to Sudan Tribune at the hospital, the chief who survived narrowly in the attack said they were just attacked while approaching a small hill of Gokazi Boma on their way returning from the funeral place.
“We were five [in] number while riding motor bikes before we fell into ambush. We were just stopped by unknown gunmen from right side [and] immediately fired bullets at us, without even recognizing who they were. They shot dead the administrator and the police and they also shot me at my leg and I fell down,” chief Mboro narrated.
“We cannot recognize them since we just saw an armed uniform man; we have lost two people, Yona Francis, a police man from Eyat road construction company, and Mboro Payam administrator Natale John Hassan,” he said.
Despite the allegations of presence of the rebels of the SPLM-IO in the area of Wau county, no one yet has claimed the responsibility of the attack. However, previous attacks occurred in the state which has rising feeling against president Salva Kiir’s government.
(ST)