By Manas James<\/p>\n
Three people have been injured in a road ambush by an armed youth group in Pochalla County on Thursday, evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n Police and local officials identified the attack victims as Dr. David Philip Omot, a former Health minister for Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), Ahol Bilnyang and Omot Athawa.<\/p>\n Pochalla County police inspector, Col. Amati Ochan told No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper <\/em><\/strong>that the three came under fire on returning after delivering medical supplies to Burator.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the morning, the vehicle left Pochalla town for Burator to deliver medical supplies. It was on its return that it was attacked between Nyium and Pochalla town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to the police officer, the former health minister, now an aid worker was injured on the head, while Athawa sustained serious gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n The police inspector, who condemned the attack, revealed that no suspect has been arrested in regard to the incidence, though witnesses claim they hail from the neighbouring county.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to eyewitness, the attackers are said to be our neighbor from Pibor County. Those are just criminals loitering in bushes. So, no arrest was made,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Pochalla county executive director, Owety Olung said plans are underway to fly those injured to Juba for adequate medical attention.<\/p>\n \u201cArrangements are being made for them to be flown to Juba for more treatment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n When contacted, Greater Pibor Administrative Area information minister, Abraham Kelang said they were not aware of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Manas James Three people have been injured in a road ambush by an armed youth group in Pochalla County on Thursday, evening. Police and local officials identified the attack victims as Dr. David Philip Omot, a former Health minister for Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), Ahol Bilnyang and Omot[Read More…]<\/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-13661","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\/13661","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=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13662,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}