{"id":44207,"date":"2026-04-28T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=44207"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:39:36","slug":"revenge-killing-leaves-23-year-old-man-dead-in-koch-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/revenge-killing-leaves-23-year-old-man-dead-in-koch-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge killing leaves a 23-Year-old man dead in Koch county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yien Gattuor Mead<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man was killed in a suspected revenge attack in Jaak Payam of Koch County, Unity State, on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, the killing is linked to an earlier incident that took place on 21 April in Bentiu IDP Camp, where another young man was reportedly murdered.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle of violence is believed to have continued when the suspect in that initial killing, identified as Manhial Buom, later passed through Jaak Payam.<\/p>\n<p>He was allegedly recognised by relatives of the deceased from the earlier incident, who then attacked and killed him on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Koch County confirmed the incident, saying no arrests have been made so far, but efforts are underway to track down those involved in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders and civil society representatives in Unity State have condemned the killings, warning that such revenge violence is becoming increasingly common, particularly among young people in and around Bentiu IDP Camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yien Gattuor Mead A 23-year-old man was killed in a suspected revenge attack in Jaak Payam of Koch County, Unity State, on Saturday morning. According to local sources, the killing is linked to an earlier incident that took place on 21 April in Bentiu IDP Camp, where another young<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/revenge-killing-leaves-23-year-old-man-dead-in-koch-county\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Crime-tap.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44236,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions\/44236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}