SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED IN EASTERN LAKES Magdoline Joseph | April 10, 2017 | 6:34 pmA photo of a cattle herder guarding a cattle camp in former Lakes state. PHOTO//David Yarrow
Police say sixteen people were killed in a cattle raiding incident in Eastern Lakes State over the weekend.The Police Commissioner in the State, Monytoch Akol says among the deceased were women and children.He says the incident took place on Sunday where thousands of cattle were raided. Monytoch added that there could be more casualties.“We don’t know the casualties on the other side, because this attack was at night. They attacked the cattle keepers and they looted all the cattle in the cattle camp,” said Monytoch.Mr. Akol says the situation is now calm after the attack, and that the army has been deployed around the location of the incident. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opX%2BDLHJkUsNNBvos%3DWg%2BhoQ03JPxyH4fyKGxv_aY89vw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
