Five people have been killed since Sunday in separate incidents in the border area between Sudan’s Darfur and South Sudan’s Northern Bahr al Ghazal State, including at the Nyinor area in the far north of Aweil North County.
A wounded man who was admitted at Aweil state hospital for treatment following an attack told Radio Tamazuj that gunmen traveling in a Land Cruiser attacked a group of people while they were fishing.
“When they came they started shooting us and we ran away, we are not knowing what is going on, but we were fishing,” he said from a hospital bed while suffering from bullet wounds.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Commissioner of Aweil North County Kon Angok Kon said that the Nyinyor near Kiir Adem has been experiencing a lot of insecurity because there are some South Sudanese rebel forces and Sudanese militias active in the region.
The commissioner confirmed the incident described by the wounded survivor and reported another incident that preceded it. He said that an SPLA soldiers who felt insulted by some Rizeigat Arabs shot dead two Rizeigat men.
Another source told Radio Tamazuj that “It was a case between SPLA and Arab traders… these traders packed their goods to leave the market on their way they fall in an ambush when two traders were killed and one ran away and reported the matter to Rapid Support Forces.”
“By then the Rapid Force came and start attacking more civilians killing three Dinka men on Monday,” he said.
The term Rapid Support Forces refers to paramilitary groups in Sudan sometimes recruited locally but under the overall command of the National Security Service.
Separately, an aid worker at an NGO working in the state said that they evacuated personnel from Nyinbuli village after local reports of South Sudanese rebel forces in proximity of the area.