Nearly 3,000 local residents of Goji village which is located some 28 kilometers away from Mundri town in South Sudan’s Amadi State fled to the bush after government troops attacked the village on Friday, eyewitnesses said.
The eyewitnesses told Radio Tamazuj on Friday that a group of SPLA soldiers attacked the village, forcing the locals to flee to the bush for safely, amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
“Everybody is now in the bush and there is no water for them specially children, and our food and houses have been burned to ashes, so we don’t know what to do,” a displaced villager said.
The villagers claim that the government force accused them of spying for the armed opposition group in the area. They also alleged that the government troops were still pursuing them in the bush.
The conflict-displaced families urged the government to stop its soldiers from targeting civilians.
Radio Tamazuj couldn’t reach government officials in Amadi to comment on the incident.