By Manas James<\/p>\n
Jonglei State Police said they are holding a man who opened fire on his in-laws and injured seven at a market in the state capital, Bor. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The seven survivors of the gunshots are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Bor and others in Juba.<\/p>\n They were sitting at a shop in Marol, the main market of Bor town on Thursday evening when attacked by their in-law.<\/p>\n Jonglei state police commissioner, Major-General Elia Costa Faustino said the suspect was arrested and detained for investigation while pending prosecution in court.<\/p>\n \u201cWe dispatched our officers to the crime scene immediately on that fateful evening and arrested the man involved in the shooting,\u201d the police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n He added that the gun used in committing the crime is also under police custody.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to preliminary investigations, the suspect was infuriated over some issues in his daughter\u2019s marriage,\u201d Costa said.<\/p>\n He added five of the injured, whose conditions were serious, have been transferred to Juba for further medication.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are waiting for medical reports and statements from the injured before we could forward the case to the court,\u201d the police officer explained.<\/p>\n The police chief called for calm among the relatives of the wounded men as the law takes its course.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Manas James Jonglei State Police said they are holding a man who opened fire on his in-laws and injured seven at a market in the state capital, Bor. The seven survivors of the gunshots are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Bor and others in Juba. They were sitting at[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":[116,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonglei-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","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=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15957,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions\/15957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}