Gun violence kills 2 people during ritual ceremony in Rubkona – commissioner

JUBA – At least two people have been killed after a brief gun violence erupted at a ritual ceremony in Rubkona town of Unity state, according to the opposition-nominated Rubkona County Commissioner Gatluak Wichar Nyah.

According to Wichar, the gunfire erupted when an unidentified criminal attempted to kill a man to avenge an earlier killing resulting in the killing of an innocent man and a young girl instead.

“The cause was that someone emerged from the crowd and wanted to kill a suspect. He shot at the suspect but missed him,” Commissioner Wichar said, according to the Netherlands-based online publication Radio Tamazuj.

“This is when everyone at that event of making traditional sacrifices started to shoot at random, killing an old man identified as Tap Nyuot and a young girl who is a daughter of a man identified as Kong,” he added.

He said a security force has been dispatched to the area and the situation has been controlled. For his part, the Director of Police Criminal Investigation Department Colonel Chiok Ruai confirmed the incident and the killing, but has no more detail about the incident.

“I have no exact details of the people wounded but I can confirm that 2 people were killed. The clashes occurred in a far village of Rubkona County where there is no communication network and an inaccessible area because of floods,” Col. Ruai said.