By Philip Buda Ladu<\/p>\n
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South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) has released a security report covering January 14th and 15th, 2025, detailing a range of incidents across the country.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Although, Col. John Kassara Koang, the SSNPS spokesman described the general security situation as relatively \u201ccalm\u201d the 2-day security brief documented several criminal activities and instances of violence that resulted in deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n On January 14th, police in Melut County, Upper Nile State apprehended a 25-year-old suspect in connection with a robbery involving two smartphones and SSP 156, 000. Investigations are ongoing to locate other suspects.<\/p>\n On the same day, a 37-year-old man was found shot dead in Imehejek Administrative Payam, Eastern Equatoria State, along with another injured civilian and local authorities suspected the incident’s motive to be revenge-related as investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, January 15th saw a higher number of incidents reported.<\/p>\n In Jur River County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, a 33-year-old woman reportedly died on spot after falling from a tree.<\/p>\n In Central Equatoria, Juba witnessed two tragic incidents; first, a 28-year-old man was beaten to death by a group of unidentified assailants in the Gumbo Don-Bosco suburb and in the Hai Condom neighbourhood, a 23-year-old Burundian woman has reportedly died in her room; the cause of death is yet to be established.<\/p>\n Further incidents recorded on January 15th included an attack on a commercial boat between Ulang and Nasir counties, Upper Nile State resulting in one injury.<\/p>\n Also a suspected revenge-related fatal shooting in Koch County, Unity State left one person dead and two others injured and the suspect is at large.<\/p>\n A violent altercation between youth groups ensued in Imehejek, which resulted in the beating of a 48-year-old man who is currently nursing injuries in Torit State Hospital.<\/p>\n In a separate incident, an armed robbery targeting a commercial vehicle travelling from Torit to Kapoeta town, Eastern Equatoria State occurred in the Khor-sera area, where the armed criminals robbed bags, money and Mobile phones before allowing the driver to proceed to Kapoeta.<\/p>\n Finally, Gogrial West County, Warrap State saw two children die in a house fire; the cause of the fire is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n The police report highlights a variety of security challenges facing South Sudan, ranging from petty crime and inter-communal violence to armed robbery and unexplained deaths.<\/p>\n Police Spokesperson, Col. John Kassara emphasized that investigations are underway in all reported criminal cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Philip Buda Ladu South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) has released a security report covering January 14th and 15th, 2025, detailing a range of incidents across the country. Although, Col. John Kassara Koang, the SSNPS spokesman described the general security situation as relatively \u201ccalm\u201d the 2-day security brief[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":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587","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=32587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32588,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions\/32588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}