JUBA — At least two people, one of whom is an unidentified East African citizen, have been killed in two separate incidents in South Sudan’s Unity state.

This is according to the state minister of information, Kuon Makuei, who said one incident occurred in Leer County where a citizen was killed by a group of unidentified youth.

The other incident, he said, occurred in Mayom County of Unity state where the unidentified foreigner was killed by a group of bandits whom he said have remained at large since the incident took place.

“One of the youth was killed yesterday in Leer at 8 PM and concurrently, a trader from East Africa was killed in Mayom,” the state Minister of Information said, said, according to the Eye Radio.

“According to reliable sources, the foreign trader went out of his residence to look for a washroom that was far from the compound. Some bandits who were around shot and killed him and the culprits are still at large,” he said. - Sudans Post