A fighter suspected of belonging to the Lord’s Resistance Army was killed in a firefight two days ago soon after the abduction of 13 people in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State.

The incident took place at Nabiapai Boma along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Commissioner of Yambio County, Kuze John.

Kuze told Radio Miraya that nine of the abductees were released soon after their capture.

Speaking on Wednesday he said, “Yesterday at around 11pm again, after the first abduction that took place around 7pm, they came back and I think in the process, our boys laid an ambush and they clashed. One of the LRA fighters lost his life and also one of our boys got killed in the process too.”

“As I talk of now, security in Nabiapai is tight, and there is no need to panic and we are sure that the LRA elements will be pursued,” he said.