{"id":12630,"date":"2023-03-30T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:45:50","slug":"fire-burns-four-to-dead-in-aweil-south-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/fire-burns-four-to-dead-in-aweil-south-county\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Fire burns four to dead in Aweil South County<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Hou Akot Hou<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, Aweil said four people were burnt to dead by a fire that was reportedly set by a suspect identified as Ngor Ngor Ngor, aged 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state Police Commissioner, Philip Madut Tong told No.1 Citizen on Tuesday that the fire was lit by the suspect on Sunday in Aweil South County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the fire left three children aged 8, 10 and 11 including their old grandmother burnt to dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fire was started by a man who went to start in a busy area at Majak-goi village. He started the fire around 5-6pm. The children could not see when the grassy area was set ablaze. The old mother was caught by fire,\u201d he narrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madut said that the fire suspect was pursued by the police and was finally caught in Aweil East County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect, Ngor Ngor is now in the police custody in Aweil East County and will be transferred to Aweil town for investigation to take its course,\u201d Madut said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, a fire outbreak had occurred at Panameth neighborhood in Aweil town which resulted to the dead of one minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state fire brigade servicemen, according to Madut, could not do anything unless people work on their own to avoid burning the grasses which results in deaths of locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police commissioner appealed to the locals to avoid leaving children alone in the residences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou Authorities in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, Aweil said four people were burnt to dead by a fire that was reportedly set by a suspect identified as Ngor Ngor Ngor, aged 45. The state Police Commissioner, Philip Madut Tong told No.1 Citizen on Tuesday that the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/fire-burns-four-to-dead-in-aweil-south-county\/\">[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-12630","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\/12630","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=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}