At least three civilians were reported brutally killed by unknown armed men in Yei River County over the weekend.
The first incident involved the killing of a family head in Ronyi area along the Yei-Kaya road Thursday night. According to an eyewitness who preferred not to be named, the late was picked inside his room on Friday night and later was found with his throat cut.
“If you look at the murder of this resident, you will not feel like seeing a dead person. His hands were tired on the back with deep cuts on the head and in the throat,” said the witness.
The area resident called on the government to beef up its patrol security team up to the outskirts of the town.
In another separate killing, a lorry driver working for a teak logging investment company fell into a road ambush along the Yei-Lainya road and was shot dead.
Meanwhile, a regular listener and caller into a national radio breakfast show identified as Yaba Simon Mulle was shot dead inside his shop on Friday night.
On the same Friday night on which Simon Mulle was killed, there were sporadic gunshots throughout the night in Yei town. It was not clear what led to the sporadic shooting.
Visiting the crime scene on Saturday morning where the late Simon Mulle was killed, Yei River state Governor David Lokonga Moses expressed heartfelt condolences to the relatives.
He described the killing as an act of anti-peace mongers who want to spoil Yei while expressing commitment to bring the perpetrators to book. Lokonga called on the public to cooperate with security agents.
“What is really going wrong in Yei? How comes that a person is killed and nobody knows who killed this person? I am calling on you my people of Yei to cooperate with the security agents by providing security threat information so that criminals who kill people are arrested and taken to court,” Lokonga told mourners and viewers at the scene.
File photo: The body of a man found in Yei in August 2016