Rumbek North authorities accused Cueibet youths of raiding cattle and killing women and children in South Sudan’s Lakes State.

County commissioner Marial Machar told Radio Tamazuj that raiders killed twelve people and wounded five from Rumbek North and Cueibet counties last week.

Machar said the raiders came from Cueibet, not Unity State, and that they stole over 1100 cattle.

The Cueibet Commissioner could not be reach over the weekend for comment.

Machar said the livestock were stolen last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from Choldong cattle camp in Rumbek North.

He said during the Monday attack one raider was killed, while on Tuesday two more were killed in an attack where 20 cattle were stolen. Machar said another took place Wednesday at Choldong around 2:00 am.

“Among people killed were three women, two children and one man from Rumbek North while three people from raiders were reported to have been killed too,” Machar said.

The commissioner said the state government sent forces to the borders of Cueibet, Rumbek Centre, and Rumbek North to quell the violence.

Machar added that on Friday four people were killed in a car by unknown people. He said that the dead include a son and female relative of late Paramount Chief Apareer Chut Dhuol, whose murder in August set off a wave of killings and attacks in Lakes.

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File photo: A young cattle herder from the Dinka tribe carries his AK 47 rifle near Rumbek, capital of the Lakes State (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

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