Insecurity on the Juba Nimule road, long considered a safe route and the
only paved international road in the entire country, is rapidly increasing.
This latest report updates the previous post of 13th April, highlighting the shooting of one person in Nesitu,
which is approximately 30 minutes outside of Juba.
Police now confirm
that on Sunday armed gangs attacked a car and killed one person and injured
two others in the same location.Later that same day the gangs ambushed
two vehicles at the same spot killing three and wounding four.The
victims were both South Sudanese and foreign nationals.Then on Tuesday
the gang ambushed two motorbike riders, killing one and taking the
motorbike.
South Sudan Police Service spokesperson, James Monday Enocka
says additional forces including auxiliary police forces; Criminal Investigation Division officers and Central Equatoria State police, supported by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army have been deployed to the area.
