Nearly 4,500 displaced people in Likuangule County in Boma State are in dire need of humanitarian assistance to due to shortages of food and other services after an attack by suspected youth from the Lou Nuer tribe in greater Akobo area last week, a local official said.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Monday, the spokesman for Boma state’s crisis management committee, Moses Tamburum said at least 36 people were killed and 30 children abducted by the attackers.

The official pointed out that the Lou Nuer youth raided over 9000 heads of cattle after the attack.“We are calling upon the UN agencies from Juba and everywhere to quickly deliver urgent aid assistance to the displaced people who are living in the headquarters of Likuangule County,”said Tamburum.

He claimed that nearly 4,500 people were displaced from Ngunchaak and Kongor villages. “I went to the villages and managed to verify from those wounded Murle people and they said the attackers were Lou Nuer youth mixed with SPLA-IO soldiers because the whole area is under IO control,” he said.

Radio Tamazuj could not immediately reach Lou Nuer authorities for comment.