Local authorities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State yesterday said that two people died in separate incidents, one man hacked to death in Aweil North County and another hanged himself in Aweil Center County.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday, the Aweil North executive director, William Deng Mou, confirmed that Chan Deng Deng, a member of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces’ (SSPDF) wounded heroes unit was attacked and slashed to death using a machete by an assailant identified as Ajou Akot Ajou.
“Yes, it was 25th January, late in the evening between 8 and 9 pm when one person called Ajou Akot Ajou ambushed one of the wounded heroes called Chan Deng Deng who hails from Ariath Payam at a Boma called Marol-Amel. The man who ambushed Chan Deng Deng killed him with a panga and destroyed both his eyes,’’ Deng said.
According to him, women who were coming from a market day in Ariath found blood on the road and when they followed it, they found the body of the deceased in the bush. He said a suspect was arrested with support from locals and that investigations are ongoing.
In another incident, Unguech Mawein Lang, a 43-year-old man, is suspected to have committed suicide while in detention at a police station in War-Aher Boma of Barmyen Payam in Aweil Center County on Sunday night.
Authorities in Aweil Center County said the late was having differences with his wife.
Peter Kawac Kuol, the acting Executive Director in Aweil Center County said, “I have confirmed that this person had differences with his wife after he drank alcohol and the wife went and opened a case at the police station. As the wife was filing her case at the station, the deceased came and asked the police, “What are you saying?” And he was told to sit down and told that his wife has opened a case against him.”
“The police told the wife to go home and that her husband will be in police custody. After the wife went home, he was arrested. When it became dark, the police took a chain and put it on his feet and attached it to a big wooden log and locked the door, and went to their sleeping places. This person was left inside the cell and in the morning they found he had hanged himself dead. All the policemen were arrested and taken to Aweil,’’ Kawac Kuol explained.