A government employee was killed Wednesday morning in an attack along the road between Kadugli and Al-Semih area in Sudan’s south Kordofan state.
Sources told Radio Tamazuj that El-Said Mohammed Bahar, an employee in the state ministry of finance, was killed at a taxation point about 14 kilometers from Abu Kershola town. A policeman was also injured in the incident.
“The employee was working in a taxation point about 14 kilometers north from Abu Kershola with one policeman. At around four in the morning a group of unknown gunmen attacked them, they hit the policeman with a stick and seized his gun and shot the employee down immediately,” said one source.
The sources said the authorities in Abu Kershola locality were not able start searching for the perpetrators until yesterday.