A chief and two farmers were on Friday killed by armed men in Heiban County’s Kumbor Payam in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, authorities said.
Gargi Kumir Papa, the head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in the North (SPLM-N) in Kumbor Payam, told Radio Tamazuj Sunday that the assailants who refer to themselves as the Dar-Ali Militia killed found their victim in their gardens in the Amdurrdu area before killing three of them, including a local chief, and injuring another who fled from them.
“While they were preparing their farms, they found themselves surrounded by armed people some of whom were on camels. The attackers surrounded them and tied them down before shooting them,” he narrated. “While they were tying them, the attackers insisted that one of the farmers was a soldier and they escorted him to go and bring his gun. After they moved for a distance, he ran away from the assailants and they shot at and injured him.”
Kumir confirmed that the injured survivor was a soldier and one of the deceased was a chief in the Amdurrdu area.
He said farmers are now scared of going to their gardens, fearing that another attack can happen.
The SPLM-N official appealed to state authorities in Nuba Mountains to secure the area by protecting the villages so that farmers can cultivate during the current planting season.