A 70-year old man is the latest casualty in the renewed
ethnic violence in the Northern regional town of Bunkrugu last Sunday.
It brings the death toll to three following clashes
between the Jafouk and Jamong factions.
After a power cut to the area last Sunday, one group
began firing shots and burning homes. The Regional Minister was compelled to
call the Northern Electricity Department to restore power.
The Bunkprugu-Yunyoo township was placed under a 15-hour
curfew by the Interior Ministry in a similar violence in April this year.
In the latest incident, Joy News Northern Regional
correspondent Hashmin Mohammed reported that two bodies were found in an
uncompleted building last Friday.
The two were allegedly killed on their farms. It is
suspected that they were later damped into a dam before the bodies were moved
and hidden in the building.
The faction of the deceased began to suspect foul play
following circumstances surrounding the deaths. Their suspicions were further
aroused after the chief in the community forbade the family of the deceased
from burying their relative in the community.
The police were called in to defuse tensions within the
community.
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