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               Four Dead in Cattle Raid Near South Sudan Capital

   by Mugume Davis Rwakaringi

   Four people died when they were caught in the middle of a gunfight
   between cattle raiders and security officers near Juba, a spokesman for
   the national police force said Monday.
   Three of the dead were civilians and the fourth victim was a member of
   the South Sudanese army who was not involved in the fighting, police
   spokesman James Monday Enoka told a news conference.
   The fighting  broke out in the early hours of Sunday when suspected
   Murle cattle raiders attacked.a livestock market in Gumbo, two
   kilometers (1.2 miles) outside Juba, Enoke said. The three civilians
   who were killed worked at the livestock market, he said.
   "The criminals took [an] unspecified number of cows and according to
   our reports some of the criminals were injured," he said. The police
   and army were able to recover some of the cattle before the raiders
   fled, Enoka said.
   Security teams from the police and SPLA were still pursuing the raiders
   Monday and attempting to recover the rest of the stolen cattle.
   Enoka says attempted raids on the market are common, but the police are
   usually able to chase the raiders away without violence. He blamed the
   fatalities on Sunday on the high number of illegal guns in South Sudan,
   an in Juba in particular.
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