Pregnant woman commits suicide in Lakes State
Police in Rumbek East County of Lakes State confirmed that a pregnant woman identified as Abok Majur Bech took her own life in Cueigakteng Payam on Sunday morning.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, the deputy commissioner of police in Rumbek East County, Brigadier Makur Dak, said investigations had commenced into the death of the deceased whose husband also died recently. According to the investigation from close relatives, it is said that the wife had always been complaining that her late husband who was recently killed in a road ambush while rescuing raided cattle from neighboring Yirol West County used to appear to her in dreams at night when she was sleeping. That might be the reason she hanged herself to death,” Brig. Dak said.
Drunk teenager shoots, kills driver in Rumbek
Police in Rumbek, Lakes State have said that they arrested a teenager who killed the driver of a commuter vehicle on Monday evening in Rumbek East.
The suspect, Mathat Kokde Maker, who is said to have been drunk at the time allegedly shot and killed the driver at 7 pm in the area of Karic while the latter was transporting passengers from Juba to Rumbek.
The deputy commissioner of police in Rumbek East County, Brigadier Makur Dak, told Radio Tamazuj that the suspect was apprehended and handed over to Rumbek town police for investigation and imprisonment.