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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
A freelance journalist from the US was one of 19 people killed on August 26 in South Sudan during fighting between government and rebel troops in the Yei River state. The journalist, Christopher Allen, worked for various news outlets and was killed in heavy fighting in the town of Kaya.
“On the ground, about 16 (bodies) have been found around the defensive position of the SPLA including this white man,” Santo Domic Chol, a military spokesman was cited by Reuters as saying. Three government soldiers were also killed, he said.
The rebels identified him as Allen, who had been embedded with them for the past week.
“We are sad for his family. He came here to tell our story,” one rebel who knew Allen said in the Reuters’ report. He asked not to be named but said Allen had been in the middle of the fighting and wearing a jacket marked PRESS.
Chol said the rebels had attacked an army base in Kaya but they were repulsed after an hour-long fight
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