{"id":38187,"date":"2025-08-01T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=38187"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:59:59","slug":"one-killed-several-abducted-in-juba-maridi-road-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/one-killed-several-abducted-in-juba-maridi-road-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, several abducted in Juba-Maridi Road ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Some-of-the-bikes-burn-down-during-the-ambushcourtesy--300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Some-of-the-bikes-burn-down-during-the-ambushcourtesy--300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Some-of-the-bikes-burn-down-during-the-ambushcourtesy-.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the bikes burn down during the ambush\/courtesy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>By Lodu William Odiya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authority in Maridi County of Western Equatoria has confirmed that one person was killed and several others injured in an ambushed on a pickup truck along the Juba-Maridi Road in Western Equatoria State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maridi County commissioner, the attack occurred near Mani\u2019bu as a public vehicle traveling from Juba to Maridi came under heavy gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were ambushed around 5 am . The driver was shot dead, and several people sustained injuries. The attackers also set the vehicle and motorcycles on fire,\u201d Alfred Miiri said.<\/p>\n<p>The same armed group reportedly abducted several boda-boda riders in a separate attack shortly after, dragging them into the bush and setting their motorcycles ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said security forces later rescued the situation and took the injured victims to Maridi Civil Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>With the aim to rescue those abducted, the county authorities have sent forces to follow the criminals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya Authority in Maridi County of Western Equatoria has confirmed that one person was killed and several others injured in an ambushed on a pickup truck along the Juba-Maridi Road in Western Equatoria State. According to Maridi County commissioner, the attack occurred near Mani\u2019bu as a public<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/one-killed-several-abducted-in-juba-maridi-road-ambush\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maridi","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Some-of-the-bikes-burn-down-during-the-ambushcourtesy-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38190,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions\/38190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}