Police authorities in South Sudan have condemned the attack and the killing of the three of its officers on Juba-Nimule road, describing it an inhumane and barbaric act of terrorism Police spokesman Justin Daniel said that a group of attackers assaulted the police post at Nyelo Sunday before fleeing the scene of attack to Nelo village, where they purportedly shot dead a village chief. “The general security situation is under control except some isolated incidents by some people trying to cause havoc and to cause panic to the citizens but our police personnel are there. The incident of Nyelo is being investigated and as police, we condemn and treat it as a barbaric and terrorists act. There is no justifiable cause to kill some people trying to secure the safety of the road for travelers. We are also told that the same attackers after fleeing the scene of the crime went and killed an innocent village chief at Nelo”, police spokesman said in a statement broadcast also by South Sudan broadcasting corporation. He said that the traffic between Juba and Nimule is flowing normally and refuted claims of mass arrest by the police in the area. He said: “There is nothing like that. There is no mass arrest taking place. What happened is a normal procedure. You see when incident like this happens; the police are permitted to ask questions from people who they believe reasonable information could come from. And if they pick people for that purpose, at least the people who carried out the act are not spirits but that does not translates to mass arrest, when we ask questions and find out that they know nothing, we leave them to go.” “The police may have picked one or two persons in order to help with ongoing investigation on the matter. “They could have one or two information that could give us a lead to the real perpetrators of the act”. Multiple sources and residents of Pageri area claimed soldiers and police stormed villages on Monday afternoon and started harassing, beating and arresting people who have no idea about what transpired. "The police people and soldiers came yesterday afternoon and started beating up anybody they could find. The whole village was gathered under trees. What kind of investigation is that", asked a resident on the condition of anonymity when asked to say what he saw and knows of the situation in the area after the incident.