{"id":10752,"date":"2022-11-22T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:16:19","slug":"deadly-highway-ambush-claims-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/deadly-highway-ambush-claims-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Deadly highway ambush claims lives<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Adia Jildo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A road ambush reportedly laid by unidentified men in uniform along the Juba-Nimule Highway against a convoy of two buses and a Noah car has left three people dead and 32 others injured according to police report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police spokesperson Major General Daniel Justin Boula confirmed the incident to No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the attack happened early Monday morning, on Passenger buses headed toward Nimule border town from Juba when the two buses and a Noah were attacked by the armed men in uniform leaving 3 passengers feared dead and 32 others injured who were rushed to Juba for medical attention after an intervention force hit the scene of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn ambush happened between Nyerjebe and Obama along Juba-Nimule Road where 3 vehicles at 10am were attacked,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cAs a result of the attack, we happen to lose 3 lives. 2 women and a man. 32 others were wounded,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police spokesperson said eye witness accounts revealed that the attackers were dressed in green uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said the corpses have been brought back to Juba while other two foreigners who have been injured were taken to their country of origin to receive treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said forces have been deployed to normalize the situation for travelers to use the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe highway is very secured now because we have forces on the ground. I assure the passengers that the road is safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No culprits of the attack however have been apprehended so far though forces are still in pursuit of the attackers as they were in uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recent Juba-Nimule Highway bloody ambush comes barely a week after another ambush along the Juba-Torit Highway by armed assailants on a commercial truck carrying goods from Juba to Torit last week left one person dead and two others injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adia Jildo A road ambush reportedly laid by unidentified men in uniform along the Juba-Nimule Highway against a convoy of two buses and a Noah car has left three people dead and 32 others injured according to police report. Police spokesperson Major General Daniel Justin Boula confirmed the incident<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/deadly-highway-ambush-claims-lives\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}