A soldier was shot dead after he killed a senior officer and injured a prison warden in Hiyala, Eastern Equatoria state.

“He was shot dead yesterday [Thursday] because he wounded one of the prison wardens and he also killed a colonel. I think they have given orders for killing him,”  said Peter Lokeng Lotone, the State’s Minister of Local Government and Law Enforcement.

Mr. Lokeng said the unnamed deceased soldier became aggressive after killing a colonel in the police and wounding a prison warden before he was killed.

“You know always when a soldier is aggressive he can be shot because he was scaring everybody, shooting at everybody.”

The incident happened in a military barrack in Kiyala on Thursday.

The motive of the killings remains unclear, but Lokeng said the authorities were investigating the incident.