The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Matthew Hollingworth, has strongly condemned the killing of a UN-contracted aid worker that also left another injured, after the convoy they were travelling in came under attack.
Hollingworth, in a statement said the World Food Programme WFP convoy had been deliberately targeted.
Press release issued by the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA said Armed men attacked the convoy of five amphibious vehicles between Tindiir and Duk Padiet in Jonglei State on Sunday, spraying them with bullets.
The team was returning from Tindiir, where they had delivered critical live-saving food assistance for people adversely hit by flooding in the region, when it was ambushed.
Hollingworth demanded that authorities should make every effort to bring the perpetrators to justice, ensuring that communities were protected along with “humanitarian personnel and assets across the country.”
