Missionaries issued an urgent call for security forces after renewed tribal attacks left two dead on Easter Sunday night in Mapuordit Payam, Yirol East County of Lakes State.
Mapuordit parish priest Antoine Kondo told Good News Radio via e-mail that on Sunday night people from the Jur community of Western Equatoria attacked Mapuordit village.The shooting lasted for 10 minutes leaving two dead: a local school boy and a Jur attacker.
Brother Rosario Iannetti, the surgeon who directs the local hospital, said he had to operate on two seriously wounded people.
The Director of Rumbek Nursing School, Magdalen Awor, yesterday called back to Rumbek the seven third-year students who were on clinical placement at Mapourdit Hospital.
She expressed concerns about the start of the academic year for 19 students from five states for the Certified Community Nursing course due to start in Mapuordit on Monday.
Bishop Caesar Mazzolari of Rumbek spoke twice with Lakes State Governor Chol Tong Mayay Jang who promised to appeal for a battalion of 600 men to protect Mapuordit and its hospital, schools, church and minor seminary.
Eng. Chol met with his Western Equatoria counterpart Bangassi Joseph Mario Bakosoro on April 5 in Mapuordit and promised to deploy 500 policemen in a buffer area between Mapuordit and Mvolo.
The missionaries in Mapuordit are concerned that the governors may fail to implement the resolution.
Clashes between the Jur of Mvolo and the Dinka Atuot of Yirol West started on March 9.
The conflict started in February with a cattle-camp incident opposing members from the two communities.