By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
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A police officer is being detained for shooting a man whom he accuses of killing his brother.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n According to authorities in Turalei payam, Twic county of Warrap state, Sergeant Major, Pab Atem killed a man, identified as Angok Akoon, in revenge of his brother.<\/p>\n Twic county chief inspector of police, Brigadier Geng Mayen Geng said that the suspect, stated that the deceased killed his brother sometimes back, in a cattle theft incident, at Ajak Kuac.<\/p>\n The suspect, Pab Atem, accused deceased Angok Akoon, of shooting his brother at the neck, stealing their cattle and was spotted while fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n The police inspector said that Angok Akoon was rushed to St. Teresa Hospital where he succumbed to the bullet wounds.<\/p>\n \u201cHe claims that the man whom he shot stole their cows and when he spotted him, he shot him in the neck and that bullet killed him instantly,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n After the death of the victim, the police inspector authorities in Warrap state instructed them to transfer the suspect who is an officer, to Kuajok where he is being interrogated.<\/p>\n Brigadier Mayen urges the family of the deceased to desist suggestions from other elements in the community to avenge the killing.<\/p>\n As South Sudan is grappling with insecurity including food scarcity, issues of cattle thefts, among cattle keeping communities, are on the rise<\/p>\n Despite state of emergencies being declared in Warrap and Mayom county on Unity state, armed cattle raids and revenge killings, keep recurring.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou A police officer is being detained for shooting a man whom he accuses of killing his brother. According to authorities in Turalei payam, Twic county of Warrap state, Sergeant Major, Pab Atem killed a man, identified as Angok Akoon, in revenge of his brother. Twic[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-37195","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\/37195","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=37195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37196,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions\/37196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}