{"id":4844,"date":"2021-11-25T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:42:14","slug":"5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush","title":{"rendered":"5 killed, 1 injured in Akobo road ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>At least five people were killed, one injured and two others are missing after a road ambush carried out by armed bandits in Akobo County of Jonglei State on Tuesday, a local official said.<\/p>\n<p>Gatwec Reat, the county commissioner, told Radio Tamazuj that the incident occurred when a group of men heading to the Walgak area from Ethiopia was waylaid by the assailants at the Pulbur area on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur local youth went to the scene of the incident this (Wednesday) morning. They found five men dead and women are still missing. They were eight people in number but one of them who was injured managed to reach the town yesterday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The county commissioner pointed out that the area is calm after the attack which he blamed on suspected cattle raiders suspected to have come from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Jay Adingora, the GPAA information minister said: \u201cWe condemned this attack in which innocent civilians were killed. From our side, we can not confirm whether the attackers are youth from Pibor or not. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. At least five people were killed, one injured and two others are missing after a road ambush carried out by armed bandits in Akobo County of Jonglei State on Tuesday, a local official said. Gatwec Reat, the county commissioner, told Radio Tamazuj that the incident occurred when a group of men heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,2212,1773,233],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-akobo","tag-ambush","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 killed, 1 injured in Akobo road ambush - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least five people were killed, one injured and two others are missing after a road ambush carried out by armed bandit ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 killed, 1 injured in Akobo road ambush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least five people were killed, one injured and two others are missing after a road ambush carried out by armed bandit ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-25T14:41:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-25T15:42:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/11\/img-619faeb758210.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"447\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"5 killed, 1 injured in Akobo road ambush\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-25T14:41:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-25T15:42:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/11\/img-619faeb758210.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Akobo\",\"ambush\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/5-killed-1-injured-in-akobo-road-ambush\",\"name\":\"5 killed, 1 injured in Akobo road ambush - 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