Armed youth walk a village in South Sudan’s Pibor region. Photo: AFP

At least two people were killed and about ten others injured during cattle raiding in Twic East County on Tuesday.

Major General Elia Cost, the State Police Commissioner says gunmen allegedly from Greater Pibor Administrative Area carried out an attack on Panyagor villagers  at around 3:00 PM.

“Yesterday [Tuesday] at 03:30 pm in the evening, a group of criminals came and attacked a cattle camp in Bidit that is Panyagor and looted the cattle and ran away.

“So the youth followed them and clashed with them, and they (attackers) killed two from Bidit and then wounded about ten people,” he said.

The attackers, according to the police official, raided about 500 heads of cattle.

But some of the looted cattle were recovered after the area youth and members of the organized forces pursued the attackers

“They managed to recover some of the cattle but others did not yet recover,” Gen. Costa added.