Aerial view of Torit Town. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
A 40-year-old soldier attached to the Wounded Heroes Unit, Joseph Olima, was killed during a cattle raid in the outskirts of Torit town last Saturday.
Armed men attacked four kraals in the same location at different times on Saturday, rustling 1,727 head of cattle from kraals in the Safari Link area and another 200 from Hai Lotuko Kraal outside the Eastern Equatoria State capital.
Maj. Justine Kleopus Takuru, the police spokesperson in Torit told Radio Tamazuj, “It was on the 13 March, Saturday, the report came to us at around 1:30 pm from a civilian called Mayen Machok Garang, 44, a resident of Hai Silak near the military barracks here that they took their animals grazing around Oudo. Some people came and raided the cattle.”