A protracted-distance bus has come underneath assault by gunmen in South Sudan on a primary street south of the capital, Juba, leaving at the least one particular person useless and a number of other others feared kidnapped, the military has stated.
The passenger car, heading for the Ugandan capital, Kampala, was focused on Tuesday morning.
Photographs from the scene present flames engulfing the within of the bus and black smoke rising up into the sky.
Regardless of a peace deal being in place to finish years of civil conflict in South Sudan, insecurity stays rife in lots of components of the nation.
Military spokesperson Maj Gen Lul Ruai Koang advised the BBC that one particular person, a Ugandan man, had been killed and eight wounded. He added that seven others have been lacking and it’s thought they could have been kidnapped.
Gen Koang accused a insurgent group, the Nationwide Salvation Entrance (NAS), of being behind the assault 80km (50 miles) from the capital.
The group, led by former deputy chief of workers Gen Thomas Cirilo Swaka, operates in areas south of Juba, in addition to different components of Central Equatoria state.
NAS, which refused to signal the 2018 peace accord, has not commented on the bus assault.
Earlier, the military spokesperson advised Radio Tamazuj that the troopers who have been despatched to the scene had fought off the attackers.
There have been different violent incidents on the street linking Juba with the southern border city of Nimule.
In August 2022, 11 passengers – South Sudanese and Ugandans – have been killed and a number of other others wounded when their car was ambushed by unidentified armed males.
And a yr earlier, two South Sudanese Catholic nuns have been killed alongside the identical freeway as they have been travelling again to Juba.
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