A community leader at the UN camp in Juba says an IDP was attacked and killed by soldiers near UN base at Checkpoint on Sunday.

Ret Kaje said the 27-year-old deceased was playing football with his friends outside the UN camp when the soldiers appeared.

Speaking to Eye Radio, Kaje said the soldiers also stripped the young man naked.

“A young man was killed by the men in uniform outside the gate – 200 meters away from the entrance. These people came and shot him thrice. He was first shot in the chest. While on the ground, they shot him in the forehead and then in the stomach,” he said.

“They took his phone and everything he had in his pocket and his clothes and they left the man naked.”

“On 3 June, UNMISS received information that one male adult internally displaced person (IDP) residing in Juba POC site 1 was shot dead in the north side of the weapons-free zone by an unknown perpetrator,” UNMISS said in an e-mail to Eye Radio.

it added that it doesn’t have any more information about the incident and the Mission is currently working to gather more details.

Eye Radio’s attempts to contact the SPLA spokesperson  for comment was not immediately successful.

A similar incident occurred near the UN camp where a university student was killed at the Jebel checkpoint in April.

Eyewitnesses said the student was shot by a soldier who ordered him to kneel down shortly after he alighted from a minivan adjacent to the POC site.