Ambush on South Sudan aid convoy kills 17

JUBA, June 30 — At least 17 people were killed and nine others wounded in a Monday attack on a humanitarian convoy in Duk County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State, officials said Tuesday.

John Chatim Ruei, commissioner of Duk County, blamed armed Murle youth from the neighboring Greater Pibor Administrative Area for the ambush on vehicles belonging to the John Dau Foundation (JDF), a local nongovernmental organization, along the road between Pajut and Payuel villages.