By Yang Ater Yang<\/p>\n
Local authorities in Yirol East County of Lakes State said suspected armed youth from neighbouring Panyijar County, Unity State, shot and wounded a wildlife soldier, looting his sack of dry fish.<\/p>\n
The incident reportedly occurred at 4:00 PM in Karer along the riverside near Shambe National Park on Monday along the road to Yirol East County.<\/p>\n
James Achol Abok, the victim of an armed youth attack, sustained two bullet wounds in his right arm.<\/p>\n
He told the No. 1 Citizen daily newspaper that he was shot twice in his right arm and that his sack of dry fish was looted.<\/p>\n
The survivor said he identified the suspects as being from neighbouring Panyijar County in Unity State.<\/p>\n
“Before they shot me and looted my bag of fish. They attacked another soldier who was travelling ahead of me, but they didn’t hit him with bullets,” Achol said.<\/p>\n
“This incident occurred at 4:00 PM on my way from Karer along the riverside near Shambe National Park,” he said.<\/p>\n
The survivor is currently receiving treatment at Yirol East County Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC).<\/p>\n
“One bullet is still in my arm, and it needs to be removed,” he said. But another bullet has passed through”.<\/p>\n
The executive director of Yirol East County, Dhuor Apiu, confirmed the incident that occurred on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
“Yes, we heard that a wildlife soldier who was travelling from Karer was shot and wounded on the way near Yirol East County by the suspected armed youth from Panyijar county”, he said.<\/p>\n
He further confirmed that the survivor is now at Yirol East County Hospital for medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Yang Ater Yang Local authorities in Yirol East County of Lakes State said suspected armed youth from neighbouring Panyijar County, Unity State, shot and wounded a wildlife soldier, looting his sack of dry fish. The incident reportedly occurred at 4:00 PM in Karer along the riverside near Shambe National[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":[121,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lakes-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792","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=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}