Five people killed in Wau state, says police

January 11, 2016 (WAU) – Five people, including a woman, were killed in South Sudan’s newly-created Wau state over the weekend, police officials told Sudan Tribune Monday.

In one incident, a South Sudanese army (SPLA) officer reportedly shot dead a Sudanese businessman operating in Wau town Friday night.

The deceased, only identified as Kamish, was killed at Hai Kalbario area in Wau town.

A police prison officer was also killed, in another incident, by unknown gunmen in Natabo village, located in the western part of Wau town.

In Jur River county, a Ugandan was killed in Udici payam following an incident, which involved a missing girl believed to have committed suicide by jumping into a well.

“This made the family [of the girl] to look for somebody to go and search into the well. A Ugandan volunteered himself to go into the water but in the process of pulling him into the well by the roof, it cut off and he fell and drowned immediately,” said an eye witness.

Wau police said they have launched investigations into what actually caused the death of the Ugandan national who volunteered to the family of the girl who allegedly drowned.

Meanwhile, two Ugandan lumbering at Bahr-Akol forest in Udici payam were murdered by unknown gunmen and their bodies were brought to Wau’s main teaching hospital.

“They were captured in the morning and were hand-tied before execution,” said a police officer, adding that Criminal Investigation Department personnel are probing the matter.

(ST)