200 DINKA KNOWN AS MTN KILLED IN YEI JUBA ROAD

RESCUE  TEAM COLLECTING BODIES.BY  PHOTO NATIONAL COURIER.

Eyewitnesses say many passengers were killed yesterday morning after a vehicle travelling to Juba from Yei came under attack near Lainya. The vehicle was carrying over 200 people.

Eyewitnesses said that the attackers were masked when they attacked the vehicle. Few people jumped out of the vehicle and ran into the bush when the lorry came to a halt. Afterwards the gunmen systematically started separating people of Dinka ethnicity from others by asking people whether they are Dinkas or not. They then executed all the Dinkas known as MTN including women and children and then burnt  in the vehicle where from jonglei state .

Among the dead were four children who were 13, 11, 8 and 7 years old. The bodies of the children have been brought to Juba. Many of the bodies have not yet been recovered and the exact number of the people who died among the 200 passengers has not yet been ascertained.

Many of the dead are from Paweny, and Ngok-Lual-Yak. The vehicle was attacked few kilometers outside Lainya.

The incident comes after 14 Dinkas were killed in a similar ambush a week ago just few kilometers outside Juba.

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