The prominent NCP member and Ngok Dinka leader in Sudan, Zachariah Atem, died on Tuesday in Khartoum city aged 66.
His son John Zachariah Atem told Radio Tamazuj that the body was flown to Heglig area and from there to Abyei area for burial. John pointed out that his father was one of the prominent Ngok Dinka leaders in the disputed territory of Abyei.