By Peter Kuol Kuch<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
At least four people have been confirmed dead in a road ambush along Makara-wuien road in Northern Jonglei over the weekend.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n According to the acting governor of Jonglei State, a commercial vehicle was travelling from Bor town to Northern Jonglei before it came under ambush.<\/p>\n Speaking to No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, Simon Hoth, the acting governor of Jonglei State, states that all the commodities loaded in the vehicle have not been looted by the attackers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe people who perished are four, I heard all of them are adults- three are from Lou-Nuer and one from Twic, this is the information now because the people who survived the incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He says the vehicle and the few traders who survived the incident managed to return to the state headquarters in Bor.<\/p>\n Mr Hoth added that the incident is believed to be linked to the recent revenge violence that has caused significant casualties between the Hol and Ayuel communities in Jonglei State.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see that this incident must be associated with the recent clashes between Ayuel and Hol in Twic East and Duk respectively-because if the attackers were to come from Pibor, they would not have left the guns and the food items,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Last week, the Ayuel community of Twic East County engaged in communal violence with the Hol community of Duk in Jonglei State; more than 13 lives were lost and several others sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Peter Kuol Kuch At least four people have been confirmed dead in a road ambush along Makara-wuien road in Northern Jonglei over the weekend. According to the acting governor of Jonglei State, a commercial vehicle was travelling from Bor town to Northern Jonglei before it came under ambush.[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-36443","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\/36443","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=36443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36444,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36443\/revisions\/36444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}