{"id":54548,"date":"2024-03-11T16:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:38:03","slug":"somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush","title":{"rendered":"Somali truck driver killed in Duk road ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A foreign trucker driver was killed in a road ambush by armed assailants in Duk county of Jonglei State on Saturday, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Sunday, Elizabeth Nyadak John, the state information moister, said the slain Somali national met his fate while driving a truck delivering relief food to Uror County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA convoy of 10 trucks had left the state capital of Bor to deliver relief foods to the northern part of the state. Unfortunately, the last of the 10 trucks was targeted in Duk Panyang Payam by assailants and its driver was shot dead on the spot while his assistant walked for five hours to Pajut to cheat death,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Nyadak condemned the incident and said the attack was premeditated to block food delivery to needy people. \u201cThe truck was not looted according to the information we have. They targeted the last trucks carrying WFP food by shooting the wheel and then shot the driver in the head, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect the reason is that they don\u2019t want our returnees who had returned from Sudan and Ethiopia to get food,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Duk County Commissioner Peter Latjor Chuol also confirmed the incident and said they have yet to recover the body of the slain driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident occurred in the Apirdog area of Panyang Payam. One of the convoys of trucks carrying food aid was attacked, and its driver was killed, but his assistant escaped and arrived in Payuel. That truck is still in the bush with the body. So the body is not yet recovered,\u201d he said.<\/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. A foreign trucker driver was killed in a road ambush by armed assailants in Duk county of Jonglei State on Saturday, according to local officials. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Sunday, Elizabeth Nyadak John, the state information moister, said the slain Somali national met his fate while driving a truck delivering relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-54548","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-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>Somali truck driver killed in Duk road ambush - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A foreign trucker driver was killed in a road ambush by armed assailants in Duk county of Jonglei State on Saturday, acc ...\" \/>\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\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Somali truck driver killed in Duk road ambush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A foreign trucker driver was killed in a road ambush by armed assailants in Duk county of Jonglei State on Saturday, acc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-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=\"2024-03-11T16:52:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-11T17:38:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2024\/03\/sm_1710165898.983812.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Somali truck driver killed in Duk road ambush\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-11T16:52:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-11T17:38:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush\"},\"wordCount\":289,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2024\/03\/sm_1710165898.983812.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/somali-truck-driver-killed-in-duk-road-ambush\",\"name\":\"Somali truck driver killed in Duk road ambush - 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