By Ijoo Bosco<\/p>\n
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Unknown assailant shot dead, a 51-year-old farmer on Saturday morning while traveling to cultivate at Odikolong area, an outskirts of Eastern Equatoria State capital, Torit Town.<\/p>\n
The deceased has been identified as Angelo Ohosa.<\/p>\n
A police officer and a relative to the deceased, Obulo Karanja, confirmed the incident to No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to Karanja, the assailant escaped after committing the crime, adding that the incident caught people by surprise.<\/p>\n \u201cThe killer escaped immediately to the bush in Odikolong; we cannot run after him since he is armed with an AK-47 gun,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe are toothless; maybe the government has to follow him. This killer is known by the residents, and we are hopeful he will be arrested.\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ambrose Oyet Albino, Chairman of the Lopit community, condemned the killing.<\/p>\n “We condemn this barbaric act… the perpetrators must be brought to justice,” he demanded.<\/p>\n Mr. Oyet added that the motive for the killing is unknown and has caused panic among residents.<\/p>\n However, Torit municipal council police are investigating the incident and calling for calm among the town residents.<\/p>\n The police also urged residents to report any sightings of the suspect in town.<\/p>\n This is the fourth murder of its kind within the municipal council, involving unknown armed men targeting innocent people striving to make ends meet within the bush of the town.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ijoo Bosco Unknown assailant shot dead, a 51-year-old farmer on Saturday morning while traveling to cultivate at Odikolong area, an outskirts of Eastern Equatoria State capital, Torit Town. The deceased has been identified as Angelo Ohosa. A police officer and a relative to the deceased, Obulo Karanja, confirmed[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter-equatoria-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24144,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions\/24144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}