Local youth fighters have regained control over part of western Jonglei after a raid by gunmen from the north of the state, according to Duk County Commissioner Elijah Monynhom.

The attackers Sunday had killed two people in Duk Fayuel area, ransacked the houses of the county commissioner and county executive director, and drove villagers into the bush or southward toward Panyagor and Bor. 

After being driven out by Duk county youths, the attackers left the area returning to Ayod, said Monynhom.

“They went to Ayod and then went to Uror and even going up to Akobo and Nyirol,” the commissioner told Radio Tamazuj in an interview.   

Also he said they pillaged a medical clinic in Duk Fayuel, houses and equipment in the county headquarters.

“They just destroy a computer, for example, because they don’t know how to use it, or they steal medicine even though they don’t know what this medicine is for.”

File photo: A member of the Lou Nuer tribe in Jonglei state, South Sudan, 23 July 2013 (AFP/Camille Lepage)