Seven killed in Twic East county last month: official

February 4, 2016 (BOR) – At least seven people were killed and five wounded in Twic East county of South Sudan’s Jonglei state last month, an official disclosed Thursday.

Commissioner Dau Akoi Jurkuch claimed the criminals were mainly from the Murle ethnic tribe, whose intention was to raid cattle and abduct children.

“When they miss to find cattle and children to abduct, they cannot miss to kill a person who comes across their ways”, said Akoi, citing an18 January incident in which two men were allegedly killed.

Another two, said the commissioner, were killed on 24 January in western Kongor payam.

“These people went for hunting and they fell into an ambush. Two were killed and six managed to run away”, he told Sudan Tribune Thursday.

The six who escaped, according to Akoi, identified their attackers as Murle tribesmen.

Meanwhile the Twic East county commissioner has appealed to the Boma state governor, Baba Medan Konyi, to help them combat existing crimes.

“My appeal to the governor is for him to talk to traditional leaders so that these criminals are brought to book”, stressed the Twic East county commissioner.

(ST)